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… Read more: Humlab Talk: Kevin Driscoll

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… Read more: Podcast: the internet is coming to Denmark

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… Read more: Lecture in Umeå

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… Read more: Dissemination project: This week’s Danish website from the 1990s

I have now started a two-hour download of the Danish web from the 1990s which the national Danish web archive Netarkivet at the Royal Library has granted me access to.… Read more: Extraction of the Danish web in the 1990s

Today — 6 August — is one of the contending dates for when the World Wide Web was born. On this date in 1991 the English software developer Tim Berners-Lee,… Read more: WWW 33 years old

One of the most important tasks when starting to write the history of a national web like ‘the Danish web’ is to identify the outer borders of the object of… Read more: Danish domain names and meeting with Punktum.dk

The first drafts of the ideas behind this research project were first presented in a lecture 11 March 2024 at the University of Aix-Marseille in France. The lecture was entitled ‘Collecting, Using… Read more: The first drafts

This research project has matured for several years, and it therefore comes with its own pre-history. The primary impetus was another research project which I started in 2006, ‘The history… Read more: Why histories of the Danish web in the 1990s?