This special issue dedicated to the 90s as a turning decade for Internet and the Web
highlights the developments and choices–both technical and economic, but also cultural …

From the Publisher: Just try to imagine the world without the Internet. Yet in the early 1990s,
hardly any of us knew it existed. What even fewer know is that its roots stretch back well into …

This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of
internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has …

In retrospect, the Web appears a very natural development, a byproduct of the growth of the
information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. Still, the success of the Web was …

From the Publisher: Author Art Wolinsky takes readers on a journey through the
development of the Internet and the growth of the World Wide Web. The evolution of the …

This chapter summarizes the technical history of the internet. The history of the Western
internet is a chronicle of contradiction. In its predominantly pre-market phase, the internet …

The history of the Internet has been narrated many times. However, political histories of the
Internet with a non-US-centric focus are still an uncharted research area. This paper …

I was fortunate to be in contact with several primary sources as I wrote this book—people
who played important roles in the development of the online world. Leonard Kleinrock and …

Niels Brügger a, Gerard Goggin b, Ian Milligan c and Valérie Schafer d aThe Centre for
Internet Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; bDepartment of Media and …

The making of history of technology is in itself a challenge, but making Internet history is a
goal that is likely to be overly ambitious, given the breadth and complexity of such a …