Author Archives: Jim Boulton
Error 404: Digital Shoreditch 2013
Appearing as part of Digital Shoreditch’s Great Digital Exhibition, Error 404 celebrates websites made by the…
The idea of the Internet was born in Belgium
In 1934, six decades before the birth of the web, a Belgian bibliophile described his vision…
My last day as a Wise Guy
When I left Story at the end of last year and was thinking of what to…
Get off the Internet, I need to make a call
The screech of a dial-up modem is unforgettable to anyone who accessed the web in the…
Everything that can be digital, will be
Whereas California’s pedigree in high-tech engineering produced a concentration of ambitious dot com companies, New York,…
Stay tuned and keep your hands off the mouse
Hi-ReS! leapt onto our screens in 2000. Pushing the web to its technical and artistic limits,…
A car isn’t a metaphor for a horse and carriage
Daniel Brown is an interaction designer and digital artist who first emerged in 1997 with his…
Digital craftspeople
When Yugo Nakamura unveiled his MONO*crafts site at yugop.com in 1999, it made an entire industry…
Macromedia Flash back
In January 1993, Jonathan Gay, Charlie Jackson and Michelle Welsh founded FutureWave Software with the vision…
The one and only, Word.com
Conceived by Carey Earle, Tom Livaccari and Dan Pelson and launched in 1995 by Icon CMT,…
In the beginning there was Antirom
The Antirom art collective was formed in London in 1994 as a protest against “multi-mediocrity, ill-conceived…
Web archiving is only half the equation
Archiving websites is not a new idea. The British Library, the Library of Congress and many…
