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…
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, who was employed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, sent the post “WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary” to the newsgroup alt.hypertext. WWW…