Author Archives: Jim Boulton
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…
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…
