Web History

Archie

Search and you will find

August 17th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

In the early days of the web, Tim Berners-Lee maintained a list of websites on the…
Earthmine 2009

Plotting the past

June 28th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

Where maps were static, now they are dynamic. Where before we turned the page of an…

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

April 22nd, 2016 - Jim Boulton

In the early ‘70’s, following the launch of ARPANET, several packet-switching networks emerged. Robert Kahn had…
Dancing Baby

GIF not JIF

February 24th, 2016 - Jim Boulton

It’s almost thirty-years-old. It only supports 256 colours. It’s unsuitable for photographs. It has no sound…
Original Bboard Thread in which :-) was proposed by Scott Fahlman on 19 September, 1982

The Emoticon

January 21st, 2016 - Jim Boulton

The first use of the smiley face on a screen was in September 1982 at Carnegie…
Paul Brown's Builder/Eater and Daniel Brown's Noodlebox

The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution

May 18th, 2015 - Jim Boulton

Co-curated by Irini Papadimitrou and Bronac Ferran, Brown & Son’s Art that Makes Itself exhibition at the Waterman’s Art…
How do you follow Tim Berners-Lee?

How do you follow Tim Berners-Lee?

September 28th, 2014 - Jim Boulton

It’s 25 years since Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Web and the universal, inclusive space he generously…
Document-centric navigation

The Nexus Browser

March 26th, 2014 - Jim Boulton

Tim Berners-Lee made the first website, and the first web browser, on a NeXT Cube running…
The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

The first Web celebrity was a coffee pot

February 25th, 2014 - Jim Boulton

Back in 1991 at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory. Quentin Stafford-Fraser worked in the Trojan Room. The…

Hey you, Get Off Of My Cloud

August 5th, 2013 - Jim Boulton

On June 24th 1993, Severe Tire Damage performed the first live concert on the Net. Their…