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.
If you’re interested in how the internet came to Denmark I can recommend this one hour podcast ‘Internettets vej til danskerne’ (in Danish), https://tv.ida.dk/video/101762740/techtopia-330-internettets-vej-til. It is produced by Henrik Føhns and published on the tech-website Techtopia. It includes interviews with Jakob Bring Truelsen, Director of DIFO and Punktum.dk, Poul-Henning Kamp volunteer at Datamuseum/Dansk Datahistorisk Forening,…
Next Tuesday 20 August I will give a lecture at Humlab, Umeå University, entitled ‘Web history, and the question of sources’ where I will talk about the research project ‘Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s’. The lecture is open for all and you do not have to travel to Northern Sweden because it…
In the Facebbook group made for this research project (in Danish only) I have now started a dissemination project: This week’s Danish website from the 1990s. The project will run for one year, and the aim is to have readers experience what the Danish web of the 1990s looked like. As explained on the web page about…