| Description |
xvi, 257 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; vol. 112 |
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Digital formations ; v. 112
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| Contents |
Section One: The early web -- 1. Connecting textual segments : a brief history of the web hyperlink / Neils Brügger -- 2. Constructing the biographies of the web : an examination of the narratives and myths around the web's history / Simone Natale and Paolo Bory -- 3. The web's first 'killer app' : SLAC national accelerator laboratory's world wide web site 1991-1993 / Jean Marie Deken -- 4. Untangling the threads : public discourse on the early web / Marguerite Barry -- Section Two: The web of culture and media -- 5. Inside the great firewall : the web in China / Michel Hockx -- 6. Blogs as cultural products : a multidimensional approach to their diffusion in Italy (2001-2008) / Elisabetta Locatelli -- 7. Born outside the newsroom : the creation of the age online / Sybil Nolan -- Section Three: Methodological reflections -- 8. The challenges of 25 years of data : an agenda for web-based research / Matthew S. Weber -- 9. Historical website ecology : analyzing past states of the web using archived source code / Anne Helmond -- 10. The changing digital faces of science museums : a diachronic analysis of museum websites / Anwesha Chakraborty and Federico Nanni -- Section Four: Web archives as historical source -- 11. Users, technologies, organisations : towards a cultural history of world web archiving / Peter Webster -- 12. Revisiting the world web as artifact : case studies in archiving small data for the National Library of Australia's PANDORA archive / Paul Koerbin -- 13. Looking back, looking forward : 10 years of development to collect, preserve and access the Danish web / Ditte Laursen and Per Møldrup-Dalum -- 14. Usenet as web archive : multi-layered archives of computer-mediated communication / Camille Paloque-Berges |
| Summary |
This book 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 web pages introducing the hyperlink for a wider public, to today's multifacetted 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
World Wide Web -- History.
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| Author |
Brügger, Niels, 1959- editor
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| LC no. |
2017008861 |
| ISBN |
1433132699 |
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1433132702 |
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9781433132698 |
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9781433132704 |
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