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By Tony Webster from Portland, Oregon, United States (Mac OS X Leopard Install Disc in a Mac Pro) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Burning CDs that will run on Mac Classic

As I exhibit Web 1.0 websites on the hardware and software of the time, I often need…

Paul Brown's Builder/Eater and Daniel Brown's Noodlebox

The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution

Co-curated by Irini Papadimitrou and Bronac Ferran, Brown & Son’s Art that Makes Itself exhibition at the Waterman’s Art…

The Imaginary App

DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, defies pigeonholing. Not only is he a musician and author, he’s…

Original sketch for 100 Ideas that Changed the Web

100 Ideas that didn’t Change the Web

I’ve been asked a lot which ideas didn’t make the cut in my book, 100 Ideas…

How do you follow Tim Berners-Lee?

How do you follow Tim Berners-Lee?

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

100 Ideas that Changed the Web

100 Ideas that Changed the Web

My book, 100 Ideas that Changed the Web, is out. You should all rush out and…

Digital Revolution

After 18 months work, Digital Revolution is finally here. An exhibition of digital art, design, film, music,…

/Root – a degenerative algorithm

The Space is a website for artists and audiences to create and explore new digital art.…

Document-centric navigation

The Nexus Browser

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

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

GeoCities screenshots captured from Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied’s Tumblr ‘One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age’.

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…