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.

Dream World

Dream World is the second comic in the Dream Chasers trilogy. It tells the story of…

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Lines in the Sand

Lines in the Sand is a comic based on Lynn Conway’s invention of Very-Large Scale Integration…

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Soul Searching

Soul Searching is a comic based on the life of Alan Emtage, the inventor of the…

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Web@30: GRAND ARCADE, CAMBRIDGE 2021

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Organised in partnership with the Centre for Computing History and sponsored by Raspberry Pi, Web@30 celebrated…

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An Interview with Peter Kirstein CBE

Peter Kirstein CBE put the first computer on the ARPANET outside the US, worked with Vint…

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School Workshop

It was fantastic hearing young people’s vision of the Internet at Here East last week. While…

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Happy Birthday Internet

How do we define the birth of the Internet? As an ambiguous, shifting entity, it is…

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50 Years of the Internet

At 10.30pm on 29 October 1969, a team led by Professor Leonard Kleinrock sent a message…

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An interview with Alan Emtage

On the 28th November 2017 I was lucky enough to interview Alan Emtage, inventor of the…

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64 Bits: Here East 2017

Appearing as a standalone exhibition at Here East in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, 64-BITS consisted of…

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A (very) Concise Creative History of Computers

It all started in 1952, when strangely composed, anonymous love letters started appearing on the noticeboard…

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Search and you will find

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

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