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…
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. As one of the few national web archives Netarkivet allows for a researcher to apply for having web content extracted from its collections, and having…
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 and Preserving the Web for Education and Research‘, and it was organised by TELEMMe and Associate Professor Sophie Gebeil. Three months later (6 June) an…