Bibliography:

Martin Campbell-Kelly et al., Computer: A History of the Information Machine

Thomas Rid, Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

Amy Klobuchar, Anti-Trust

Ben Tarnoff, Internet for the People

James Ball, The System

Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

James Muldoon, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

Yes, Government Researchers Really Did Invent the Internet, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/yes-government-researchers-really-did-invent-the-internet/

A Brief History of NSH and the Internet, https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/fsnsf_internet.htm

Brian McCullough, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone

Sabeel Rahman and Zephyr Teachout, From Private Bads to Public Goods

Ethan Zuckerman, The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure

Where is the Digital Highway Really Heading? https://www.wired.com/1993/03/kapor-on-nii/

Benjamin J. Birkinbine, Incorporating the Commons: Corporate Invovlement in Free and Open Source Software

Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias

Maurine Webb, Coding Democracy

Adam Curtis, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace

Robert David Steele, The Open Source Everything Manifesto

Mark Andrejevic, Automated Media

Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/from-private-bads-to-public-goods-adapting-public-utility-regulation-for-informational-infrastructure

Hal Varian, Beyond Big Data, https://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/2013/BeyondBigDataPaperFINAL.pdf

50 years ago today, the Internet was born. Sort of., https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-sort-of/

Seeding Networks: the Federal Role, http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/govt.htm

Getting Started Computing at the AI Lab, https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41180

NSFNET, The first national, then global backbone, http://som.csudh.edu/cis/471/hout/nsfnet.htm

A Brief History of NSF & the Internet, https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103050

High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-105/pdf/STATUTE-105-Pg1594.pdf

TELECOM’S LAVISH SPENDING ON LOBBYING, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1998/12/06/telecoms-lavish-spending-on-lobbying/b3f35aec-aab0-4a9d-8f48-3212572df8ec/

Ben Tarnoff, ‘Wallets and eyeballs’: how eBay turned the internet into a marketplace https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/16/wallets-and-eyeballs-how-ebay-turned-the-internet-into-a-marketplace

Inside the Backlash Against Facebook, http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532225,00.html