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Understanding the World Wide Web

History and Evolution of the World Wide Web

Internet Society's Internet Timeline (best quick overview of the history of the Internet)
http://www.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html

PBS's quick Net History Timeline (interactive)
http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/index.html

Media History Project's Timeline from Prehistory to the Present
http://www.mediahistory.com/time/timeline.html

Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia: History of Computers
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html

Tim Berners Lee's Short Personal History of the WWW
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory

Web-Based Copyrights and Standards

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium Site - an international industry consortium led by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web.
http://www.w3.org/

Webstandards.org
http://www.webstandards.org/

Webstandards.org's FAQ on Web Standards
http://www.webstandards.org/faq1.html

Yale's Online version of the Yale Web Style Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html

Excellent Web page standards overview from University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://www.library.wisc.edu/help/tech/Web_standards.html

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

University of Texas Fair Use Guide
http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/copypol2.htm

ThinkQuest Copyright FAQ for ThinkQuest Students
http://www.thinkquest.org/help/copyfaq.shtml

Netiquette

Net User Guidelines and Netiquette - Arlene H. Rinaldi Computer User Services Florida Atlantic University
http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html

K-12 Student Acceptable Use policy template (Internet)
http://www.erehwon.com/k12aup/student_AUP.html

 

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