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 == Is This Article Only Half There? ==    

 Where is the history of applications on the internet? Many people may be interested in learning about the physical growth of the network, but what about the history of internet usage? The story of what people did with the internet from 1969 to present would be a very interesting one. Here's a hint: ftp, email, newsgroups, irc, instant messaging and the biggie: www (including browsing, search engines, blogging, wikis, syndication feeds, social bookmarking).      

 : Most of these already have separate articles, giving the history in detail (I recall working on the email one at some point - I'll have to go check it and see how badly the amateurs/noobs have screwed it up since then). A section here giving a brief history, with links to the appropriate articles, would not be amiss. As to why it's not here - hey, dude, it's a Wiki - get busy! -)    

 == Dot Com Boom Bust == 

 I struggling to find any reference to Dot Com anywhere on wikipedia. The boom and bust was a major recent event and surely forms part of the history of the Internet. Maybe I am just blind or thick today.  

 ==International contributions to the creation of the Internet== 

 The recent anti-US edits are not helpful. If people bother to study the actual history, y'all will discover that the project had a strong international component from the very start. Many of the most important ideas distinguishing it from the earlier ARPANET work came from the CYCLADES work of Louis Pouzin in France. The research group at Stanford which did the initial concept work included Gerard LeLann from IRIA in Frnce, Dag Belsnes from the University of Oslo, and Kuninobu Tanno from Japan. The actual Internet project included a number of non-US personnel and groups, including Peter Kirstein and his group at UCL, NDRE in Norway (with Paal Spilling and Yngvar Lundh), as well as a number of individual non-American participants (e.g. Danny Cohen (Israel), me (from Bermuda), etc). If you want to add an international flavour, try adding that, instead of adding irrelevant stuff, e.g. about X.25 (which was, frankly, basically completely irrelevant), and about Donald Davies (who played a role in the ARPANET work, duly noted in that article, but had nothing to do with the Internet). But the fact remains that the project was principally driven and staffed from the US, and its simply rewriting history to try and pretend otherwise.    

 PS: For instance, now that I check, X.25 wasn't done until 1976 - but the early Internet work was done in 1973, several years before X.25! So X.25 is in no way a significant part of the history of the Internet.    

 ==Erroneous edits== 

 Here's a partial list of the errors in the material recently added to History of the Internet. 

 * Prior to the Internet, communication networks would operate based on their physical transmission method - Ah, technically, no, Even the ARPAnet needed nothing more than a bit-string and clock, and it used a number of different physical transmission technologies (including satellite links) to get that. (You may have meant something slightly different, but I can only go by what's there.) 

 * as the research project at the UK's National Physical Laboratory under the direction of Donald Davies - I am unaware that Davies played any role at all in internetworking (he certainly had no role after '77, which was when I joined the project); please provide a reference to his work on that topic. (His role in packet-switching is well known, but that's different.) 

 * who developed the concepts of packet switched networks - The credit for packet switching is split several ways; see the ARPANET article for a more detailed look at this topic (Baran's work is the earliest). 

 * Parallel to DARPA's research, packet switching networks were developed by the International Telecommunication Union in the form of X.25. - There was nothing ""parallel"" about it. Telenet was an ARPANet clone, done by Larry Roberts after he left DARPA, and went online in '75. X.25 was heavily based on Telenet. In any event, the X.25 spec was only done in '76, contemporaneously with the early Internet work. 

 *  X.25 would see large take up in business, particularly banking and public access networks. - So? It was a non-related branch that died