While the Internet and new media seem new, they have been with us for well over two decades. Internet Histories explores the new interdisciplinary and dynamic field of Internet history through eighteen short essays and a series of interviews with early Web participants. It was originally published as an issue of the Internet Histories journal.

Introduction: Internet histories 1. What and where is the Internet? (Re)defining Internet histories 2. Hagiography, revisionism & blasphemy in Internet histories 3. A common language 4. Can we write a cultural history of the Internet? If so, how? 5. Searching for missing "net histories" 6. Out from the PLATO cave: uncovering the pre-Internet history of social computing 7. Internet histories: the view from the design process 8. The Internet as a structure of feeling: 1992-1996 9. Precorporation: or what financialisation can tell us about the histories of the Internet 10. Internet in the Middle East: an asymmetrical model of development 11. The unexplored history of operationalising digital divides: a pilot study 12. Early challenges to multilingualism on the Internet: the case of Han character-based scripts 13. African histories of the Internet 14. Notes from/dev/null 15. Archaeology of the Amsterdam digital city; why digital data are dynamic and should be treated accordingly 16. Doing Web history with the Internet Archive: screencast documentaries 17. Breaking in to the mainstream: demonstrating the value of internet (and web) histories 18. For a dynamic and post-digital history of the Internet: a research agenda 19. Interview