Author Archives: Jim Boulton

About Jim Boulton

Curator of "Digital Archaeology", an event that celebrates the golden age of the website and raises the profile of web archiving. The show has featured as a key part of Internet Week, gaining global media coverage and much appreciated support from The British Library, The Library of Congress and Google.

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…

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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,…

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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,…

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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…

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Digital craftspeople

When Yugo Nakamura unveiled his MONO*crafts site at yugop.com in 1999, it made an entire industry…

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Macromedia Flash back

In January 1993, Jonathan Gay, Charlie Jackson and Michelle Welsh founded FutureWave Software with the vision…

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The one and only, Word.com

Conceived by Carey Earle, Tom Livaccari and Dan Pelson and launched in 1995 by Icon CMT,…

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In the beginning there was Antirom

The Antirom art collective was formed in London in 1994 as a protest against “multi-mediocrity, ill-conceived…

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Web archiving is only half the equation

Archiving websites is not a new idea. The British Library, the Library of Congress and many…

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What is Digital Archaeology?

The web is just two-decades old but during this short time it has totally transformed our…

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Internet Week New York 2011

Digital Archaeology ran again at Internet Week New York 2011, where it attracted 12,000 visitors. The…

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Internet Week Europe 2010

Digital Archaeology made its debut at Internet Week Europe 2010. The exhibition celebrates the golden era…

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