A few new things to communicate related to the research project ‘Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s’. (1) The project description has been updated, the main news is that I have decided to focus the study on the foundational period of the World Wide Web in Denmark, that is the first five years…
Begin June I participated in the conference ‘The Datafied Web’, the 6th RESAW Conference in Siegen (see the program here https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/program/). I gave two presentations that both emerge from my project about the history of the Danish web in the 1990s: “Establishing which websites constituted a national web in the 1990s”, and “The early datafied…
Earlier today I received my hardcopy of the book The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies which I have co-edited with two great colleagues, Susan Aasman and Anat Ben-David. The book is the outcome of the international research network WARCnet (Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events) for which I was responsible…
Today, I presented a sub-part of my study of the Danish web in the 1990s at the 2025 ECREA Communication History Workshop at CERN. For those who are interested I have made the presentation downloadable at the buttom of this blog post. The presentation is entitled ‘The public understanding of computer networks: The Danish case…
I have just unboxed a piece of cultural heritage related to the history of the Danish web in the 1990s: ‘Telepakken — Porten til Cyberspace’. Telepakken was sold by the national Danish telephone company TeleDanmark from August 1995, based on the idea that it was very difficult to sell this immaterial thing — the internet/web…
There are a few other academics working with the history of the web in the 1990s, one of these is the project ‘Hamburg First Clicks’. It is a project run by five students and their lecturer Jens Crueger from the University of Hamburg. The aim of the project is to enable “eine Reise zurück in…
I was very happy last week to have two papers accepted to the upcoming RESAW conference, which will take place on June 5-6, 2025 at Siegen University. Both papers are emerging out of the project ‘Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s’. The theme of the conference is ‘The datafied web’, and you can read…
Earlier this week I had a paper accepted to be presented at the ECREA Communication History Workshop ‘Communication Networks Before and After the Web: Historical and Long-term Perspectives’. It is always nice to present a paper in an academic workshop, but for a web historian like me this time it is particularly interesting because the…
Two weeks ago I presented my research project about the histories of the Danish web in the 1990s in a Humlab Talk at Humlab, Umeå University (online). As part of my project I’ll also study the pre-web, including Bulletin Board Systems and their history, and I just wanted to flag that ‘mister BBS’ in the…
20 Aug 2024 I gave a Humlab Talk at Umeå University (online) entitled ‘Web history, and the question of sources’. The presentation is now available online at https://play.umu.se/media/t/0_zha9pfrr/105250.