We explore the gap between broad conceptions of the Internet common in daily life and the
rather narrow framing of most existing work on Internet history. Looking at both scholarly …

Across time, space and language, the meaning of “the Internet” is taken to be self-evident;
appearing to both the scholar and the everyday user as a singular, homogeneous …

Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social
contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and …

What would a cultural history of the Internet look like? The question almost makes no sense:
the Internet spans the globe and traverses any number of completely distinct human groups …

For most North Americans the Internet arrived sometime between 1993 and 1995. The
commercial media popularized the" new" phenomenon. 1 The main theme of these lustrous …

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 …

Research on Internet histories is still emerging in European countries. The Oxford Internet
Institute was founded in the UK in 2001, and has been an important center supporting …

Since its inception, the internet has been as much technological as social, practical as
ideological in character. This article examines academic discourse and asks how research …

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 origins of the Internet are only partially understood. It is often believed that the Internet
grew as a tree from a tiny acorn, the ARPANET network set up in 1969. In this study, we …