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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, by Ed Krol, was published in 1987 through funding by the National Science Foundation. It was the first popular user's guide to the history and use of the Internet. The title was a reference to the popular The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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In 1985, Ed Kroll began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. During this time, he published (through funding by the National Science Foundation), the online document text document, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (August 25, 1987) [1], "because he had so much trouble getting information and was sick of telling the same story to everyone" [2]. It was eventually published by O'Reilly, though a digital catalog related to the text was published online [3].
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