“The unknown history of the internet”: Engineering the worldwide WiWiW project

This paper reports on a large-scale project to document the origins of the ARPANET, Packet Radio Net, SATnet, Ethernet, the NSFnet and most recently the Internet. The main objective is to create and collect, source material and preserve it for the future. Traditional oral history interviews are used along with new research methods and tools, such as distributed editing, or “collective memory experiments.”