I looked it up while working on my honours thesis -- "Referer" was red-circled by one reviewer and it was necessary to try and track down how it came to be spelled that way.
I got as far as the original RFC, but today I learnt who was responsible.
"Mosaic Communications' new Netscape provides cruise control for the information superhighway," said Tim Weil, senior systems engineer at British Telecom and an early user of Netscape.
I think it is just hilarious that people used to speak about the Internet and Web in this way without being derided as cranks or utterly clueless social scientists (e.g. GEB Kivistik in Cryptonomicon)
The only issues are a missing doctype and a couple of stray tags. This is because (parts of) the site were written before Netscape went wild with extending HTML.
Makes me want to telnet into a gopher server so I can download Mac OS 6 updates via Xmodem at 1200 baud.