CLASS 01 : WHAT IS THE INTERNET?
What is the internet? Exactly how does it work? And who governs it? Does it need to be governed? How far do self-help, self-regulation, norms, and private ordering go
toward regulating behavior on the internet?
A. What is the Internet?
- American Civil Liberties Union v. Reno (Reno I), 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D. Pa. 1996), aff'd, 117 S. Ct. 2329 (1997) (a legal view of the internet)
- Barry M. Leiner, et al., A Brief History of the Internet (Aug. 4, 2000) (a bit technical and lots of acronyms, but useful history)
- Michael Froomkin, An Introduction to the Governance of the Internet (1995)
- Christopher Anderson, The Accidental Superhighway, The Economist (July 1, 1995)
- Various graphical representations of the internet.
B. Self-Help, Self-Regulation, Norms and Private Control
- Julian Dibble, A Rape in Cyberspace, The Village Voice, 36-42 (Dec. 21, 1993)
- S. Hambridge, Network Working Group RFC # 1855: Netiquette Guidelines (October 1995).
- Boston College, Use of University Technological and Information Resources (Sep. 1, 1995).
- Amy Harmon, Worries About Big Brother at America Online, NY Times (Jan. 31, 1999)
- David W. Post, Anarchy, State and the Internet: An Essay on Law-Making in Cyberspace, 1995 J. Online L. art. 3
- The Realtime Blackhole List's Rationale
- Corey Grice and Jim Hu, Excite@Home Usenet Death Penalty Lifted, CNET News.com, (Jan. 18, 2000)
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