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…
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 of dr.dk, 1996-2006‘ (funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities in 2007-10), with the aim of writing the history of the first ten…