Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web
Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the Internet as well as in the development of most societies at large, from its early grey and blue webpages introducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today’s multifacted uses of the Web as an integrated part of our daily lives.

This is the first book to look back at 25 years of Web evolution, and it tells some of the histories about how the Web was born and has developed. It takes the reader on an exciting time travel journey to learn more about the prehistory of the hyperlink, the birth of the Web, the spread of the early Web, and the Web’s introduction to the general public in mainstream media. Furthermore, case studies of blogs, literature, and traditional media going online are presented alongside methodological reflections on how the past Web can be studied, as well as accounts of how one of the most important source types of our time is provided, namely the archived Web.

Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web is a must-read
for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by the past.

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Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web
Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the Internet as well as in the development of most societies at large, from its early grey and blue webpages introducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today’s multifacted uses of the Web as an integrated part of our daily lives.

This is the first book to look back at 25 years of Web evolution, and it tells some of the histories about how the Web was born and has developed. It takes the reader on an exciting time travel journey to learn more about the prehistory of the hyperlink, the birth of the Web, the spread of the early Web, and the Web’s introduction to the general public in mainstream media. Furthermore, case studies of blogs, literature, and traditional media going online are presented alongside methodological reflections on how the past Web can be studied, as well as accounts of how one of the most important source types of our time is provided, namely the archived Web.

Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web is a must-read
for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by the past.

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Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Web. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Web has played an important role in the development of the Internet as well as in the development of most societies at large, from its early grey and blue webpages introducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today’s multifacted uses of the Web as an integrated part of our daily lives.

This is the first book to look back at 25 years of Web evolution, and it tells some of the histories about how the Web was born and has developed. It takes the reader on an exciting time travel journey to learn more about the prehistory of the hyperlink, the birth of the Web, the spread of the early Web, and the Web’s introduction to the general public in mainstream media. Furthermore, case studies of blogs, literature, and traditional media going online are presented alongside methodological reflections on how the past Web can be studied, as well as accounts of how one of the most important source types of our time is provided, namely the archived Web.

Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web is a must-read
for anyone interested in how our online present has been shaped by the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781433132698
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 08/10/2017
Series: Digital Formations , #112
Edition description: New
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

About The Author
Niels Brügger is a professor and the head of the Centre for Internet Studies and of NetLab at Aarhus University. His research interests include Web historiography and Web archiving. He has published several books within these areas, and is co-founder of the journal Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Tables ix

Introduction: Histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web Niels Brügger xi

Section 1 The early web

Chapter 1 Connecting textual segments: A brief history of the web hyperlink Niels Brügger 3

Chapter 2 Constructing the biographies of the web: An examination of the narratives and myths around the web's history Simone Natale Paolo Bory 29

Chapter 3 The web's first 'Killer App': SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's World Wide Web site 1991-1993 Jean Marie Deken 43

Chapter 4 Untangling the threads: Public discourse on the early web Marguerite Barry 57

Section 2 The web of culture and media

Chapter 5 Inside the great firewall:The web in China Michel Hockx 79

Chapter 6 Blogs as cultural products: A multidimensional approach to their diffusion in Italy (2001-2008) Elisabetta Locatelli 91

Chapter 7 Born outside the newsroom: The creation of the Age Online Sybil Nolan 107

Section 3 Methodological reflections

Chapter 8 The challenges of 25 years of data: An agenda for web-based research Matthew S. Weber 125

Chapter 9 Historical website ecology; Analyzing past states of the web using archived source code Anne Helmond 139

Chapter 10 The changing digital faces of science museums: A diachronic analysis of museum websites Anwesha Chakraborty Federico Nanni 157

Section 4 Web archives as historical source

Chapter 11 Users, technologies, organisations: Towards a cultural history of world web archiving Peter Webster 175

Chapter 12 Revisiting the World Wide Web as artefact: Case studies in archiving small data for the National Library of Australia's PANDORA Archive Paul Koerbin 191

Chapter 13 Looking back, looking forward: 10 years of development to collect, preserve, and access the Danish web Ditte Laursen Per Møldrup-Dalum 207

Chapter 14 Usenet as a web archive: Multi-layered archives of computer-mediated communication Camille Paloque-Berges 229

Contributors 253

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