
Web 25
Histories from the First 25 Years of the World Wide Web
Niels Brügger(Editor)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 10. August 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-4331-3269-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
6 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4331-3269-8 (9781433132698)
DOI
10.3726/b11492
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Person
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.