Donn Seeley tells the story of the Internet Worm of 1988 and how it effectively shut down the Internet. Proceedings of the Winter USENIX Technical Conference, San Diego, California, January 1989. http://world.std.com/%7Efranl/worm.html
Lenny Zeltser describes some of the historical aspects of World-Wide Web development, as well as other forms of hypertext such as Xanadu. http://www.zeltser.com/web-history/
Essay derived from an invited talk at ICFP 2004. Discusses the dot-com bubble and lasting lessons learned from it. http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html