Websites:
PBS history of the Internet Nerds 2.0.1 sequel to history of Si. Vly Triumph of the Nerds Science Library has it
A more technical history of the Internet
Virtual Worlds organization
Virtual worlds index at Yahoo
Neo-Luddite point of view, see also Stoll below.
Articles:
Amy Bruckman: "Christmas Unplugged" essay
Finding One's Own Space in Cyberspace
Dibnell, Julian "A Rape in Cyberspace" from My Tiny Life
Haraway, Donna "Cyborg Manifesto"
Sherry Turkle: "Virtiality amd its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" from Life on the Screen
Wark, McKenzie "Cyberpunk--Subculture or Mainstream?"
Non-Fiction Books:
Anders, Peter
Bononno, R Becoming Virtual 769 H85 L49 1998 Sci Libr
Damer, Bruce. AVATARS! - Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet. Berkeley: Peachpit Press. Interview
Hafner, Katie & Where Wizards Stay Up Late (creation of Internet) 1996 review
Heim, Michael Virtual Realism
Hertz, J.C. Joystick Nation (videogames)
Johnson, Steven. Interface Culture - How New Technology Transforms the World We Create and Communicate. San Francisco: Harper Collins.
McCluskey, James in Beyond the Vision 1991
Mitchell, William City of Bits MIT Press 1995
Moravec, Hans Mind Children Harvard 1988
Pearce, Celia. The Interactive Book - A Guide to the Interactive Revolution. Indianapolis: Macmillan Technical Publishing.
Pesce, Mark Cyberspace
Laurel, Brenda. Computers As Theatre New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Quitnner, Joshua and M Slatilla Masters of Deception (hackers)
Rheingold, Howard. Virtual Reality. as well as his other books are online
Stoll, Clifford Silicon Valley Snakeoil (a computer scientist's doubts)
Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. Life on the Screen - Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster
Books, Fiction (cyberpunk)
Neal Stephenson Snow Crash (highly recommended, but violent, like all the genre)
William Gibson Neuromancer novel is on-line