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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…

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…

Hedy Lamarr

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…

The telegraph room at The Munaneum

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…

The tomato sauce has to be stirred

My last day as a Wise Guy

When I left Story at the end of last year and was thinking of what to…

Hayes Smartmodem

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…