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• The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
• The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (free online edition; last updated 2020), by Larry L. Peterson and Bruce S. Davie (HTML with commentary at systemsapproach.org)
• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Networking (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, c2006), by Mike Ebbers, Christopher Hastings, Matt Nuttall, and Micky Reichenberg (PDF at ibm.com)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Stacks: Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks (c1992), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy Issues (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Embedded, Everywhere: A Research Agenda for Networked Systems of Embedded Computers (2001), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Your Internet Consultant: The FAQs of Life Online (1994), by Kevin Savetz (HTML at savetz.com)
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet (1987), by Ed Krol (Gutenberg text)
• Digital Creativity (London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1996), by Owen Kelly (PDF with commentary at gulbenkian.org.uk)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Realizing the Information Future: The Internet and Beyond (1994), by National Research Council NRENAISSANCE Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• High-Performance Computing and Networking for Science: Background Paper (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (Creative Commons-licensed PDF, c2008), by David Bollier (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice (online editions), by Olivier Bonaventure (multiple formats in Belgium)
• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine: A Users' Guide and Tutorial for Networked Parallel Computing, by Al Geist, Adam Beguelin, Jack Dongarra, Weicheng Jiang, Robert Manchek, and Vaidy Sunderam (HTML at netlib.org)
• Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization, by Gene I. Rochlin (HTML at Princeton)

• Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), ed. by Ramon Lobato and James Meese (multiple formats at networkcultures.org)

• A Guide to Understanding Audit in Trusted Systems (version 2, 1988), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

• The Canadian Information Highway: Building Canada's Information and Communications Infrastructure (1994), by Industry Canada (text at archive.org)

• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), by Yochai Benkler (PDF and HTML files with commentary at benkler.org)
• Information Technology and the Networked Economy, by Patrick G. McKeown (PDF at theorangegrove.org)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Computer Communication Review (articles online 2007-) (partial serial archives)
• Wired (full serial archives)

• The Psychology of Cyberspace, by John R. Suler (illustrated HTML with commentary at truecenterpublishing.com)

• Looking Over the Fence at Networks: A Neighbor's View of Networking Research (2001), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cyber Infrastructure Protection (3 volumes, 2011-2017), ed. by Tarek Nazir Saadawi, Louis Jordan, Vincent Boudreau, and John D. Colwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu
  • Volume III: PDF with commetnary at armywarcollege.edu
• Digital Identity, an Emergent Legal Concept: The Role and Legal Nature of Digital Identity in Commercial Transactions (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2011), by Clare Sullivan (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 (2003), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Intrusion Detection Systems With Snort: Advanced IDS Techniques Using Snort, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID (c2003), by Rafeeq Ur Rehman (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Stacks: Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks (c1992), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the New Mainframe: Security (Poughkeepsie, NY: IBM International Technical Support Organization, 2007), by Rica Weller, Ross Clements, Ken Dugdale, Per Fremstad, Helmut Hellner, Olegario Hernandez, William C. Johnston, Patrick Kappeler, Linda Kochersberger, Abey Tedla, Jeff Thompson, and Ashwin Venkatraman (multiple formats at ibm.com)
• Trust in Cyberspace, ed. by Fred B. Schneider (HTML and page images at NAP)
• Open Source Security Tools: Practical Applications for Security, by Tony Howlett (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993), by Howard Rheingold (HTML at rheingold.com)
• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), by Yochai Benkler (PDF and HTML files with commentary at benkler.org)

• Stacks: Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks (c1992), by Carl Malamud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Understanding OSI, by John Larmouth (HTML at Salford, with figures and audio)

• Accessibility and Integrity of Networked Information Collections (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by Clifford A. Lynch (PDF files at Princeton)
• Trusted Network Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (version 1, 1987), by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (text at nist.gov)
• Advanced Network Technology (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Trusted Network Interpretation Environments Guideline, by National Computer Security Center (U.S.) (HTML at fas.org)

• High Performance Browser Networking (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, c2013), by Ilya Grigorik (illustrated HTML with commentary at hpbn.co)
• Rethinking the Internet of Things: A Scalable Approach to Connecting Everything (Berkeley: Apress Open, c2013), by Francis daCosta (PDF and Epub with commentary at Springer Open)
• Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System (c2003), by Christopher R. Hertel (illustrated HTML at ubiqx.org)
• Understanding OSI, by John Larmouth (HTML at Salford, with figures and audio)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.