Web 25: Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2017
Author
Editor: Niels Brügger
Language
English
Number of Pages
257 pp.
Publisher
Peter Lang
City
New York, NY
Region
Asia
Europe
Oceania
United States
Chronological Period
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781433132704
Annotation

Contents: 

  • The early web. Connecting textual segments : a brief history of the web hyperlink / Neils Brügger
  • Constructing the biographies of the web : an examination of the narratives and myths around the web's history / Simone Natale and Paolo Bory
  • The web's first 'killer app' : SLAC national accelerator laboratory's world wide web site 1991-1993 / Jean Marie Deken
  • Untangling the threads : public discourse on the early web / Marguerite Barry
  • The web of culture and media. Inside the great firewall : the web in China / Michel Hockx
  • Blogs as cultural products : a multidimensional approach to their diffusion in Italy (2001-2008) / Elisabetta Locatelli
  • Born outside the newsroom : the creation of the age online / Sybil Nolan
  • Methodological reflections. The challenges of 25 years of data : an agenda for web-based research / Matthew S. Weber
  • Historical website ecology : analyzing past states of the web using archived source code / Anne Helmond
  • The changing digital faces of science museums : a diachronic analysis of museum websites / Anwesha Chakraborty and Federico Nanni
  • Web archives as historical source. Users, technologies, organisations : towards a cultural history of world web archiving / Peter Webster
  • Revisiting the world web as artifact : case studies in archiving small data for the National Library of Australia's PANDORA archive / Paul Koerbin
  • Looking back, looking forward : 10 years of development to collect, preserve and access the Danish web / Ditte Laursen and Per Møldrup-Dalum
  • Usenet as web archive : multi-layered archives of computer-mediated communication / Camille Paloque-Berges
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