Author Archives: Jim Boulton
Digital Archaeology: Barbican 2014-19
Digital Archaeology was a core part of The Barbican’s Digital Revolution exhibition, telling the creative history of…
/Root – a degenerative algorithm
The Space is a website for artists and audiences to create and explore new digital art.…
The Nexus Browser
Tim Berners-Lee made the first website, and the first web browser, on a NeXT Cube running…
The first Web celebrity was a coffee pot
Back in 1991 at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory. Quentin Stafford-Fraser worked in the Trojan Room. The…
GeoCities – where many of us lost our HTML virginity
Founded in 1994, Beverly Hills Internet was a Web hosting business based in California. In mid-1995,…
Digital Revolution at the Barbican
I’m very happy to be involved with Digital Revolution, an exhibition at the Barbican next summer…
You haven’t lived until you’ve died in a MUD
When student friends Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle created Multi-User Dungeon at Essex University in the…
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single click
Released in 1897, ‘The Haverstraw Tunnel’ was a silent movie featuring a train travelling along the…
Viewpoint: The Argument
The excellent Viewpoint magazine explores the way we will live. In the latest issue, No 32:…
Hey you, Get Off Of My Cloud
On June 24th 1993, Severe Tire Damage performed the first live concert on the Net. Their…
The secret history of WiFi
In 1933, the most popular film was King Kong but the most talked about was Ecstasy,…
When CERN came to visit
Myself and my fellow digital archaeologists, Kalle Everland and Jesper Lycke, were very happy to welcome…
