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Packets and Packet-Switching Networks
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Computer Networking: Global Infrastructure for the 21st Century" by Vinton Cerf (one of the original Internet architects)

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/cra/networks.html

A Brief History of the Internet, by the original architects

http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html

"Understanding Digital Packet Switching" (with animated graphics)

http://www.bell-labs.com/technology/packet/

Microsoft WAN Technologies document covering various switching methods

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/wan.asp

Noritoshi Demizu's Internetworking technical resources page

http://www.watersprings.org/links/inet/

Cisco's internetworking technology overviews

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/

RAD Communications: "Introduction to Packet Switching and X.25 in Public Data Networks"

http://www.rad.com/networks/1994/packet/packet.htm

RAD Communications: Packet Switching Simulation

http://www.rad.com/networks/1998/packet/ps.htm

"The History of the Net" by Henry Edward Hardy

http://www.ocean.ic.net/ftp/doc/nethist.html

Short History of the Internet" by Bruce Sterling

http://www.forthnet.gr/forthnet/isoc/short.history.of.internet

"The End of the End-to-End Argument" by David P. Reed

http://www.reed.com/Papers/endofendtoend.html

See "Datagram and Datagram Services" and "IP (Internet Protocol)" for more links.

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