This month, making a website has never been this easy. Understanding the web, however, is another story

Jozef Jarosciak just put millions of early Usenet posts on a browsable archive for the first time.

Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.

Who invented the word? And who was responsible for getting it used by the community? A full history, with audio, looking at the words used for on-demand audio via RSS.

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

It was just about one year ago that a powerful explosion triggered a multitude of chemical reactions which caused a mutation in the primordial ooze that resulted in the birth of The Verge. It has...

A glance back at a time before Chartbeat.

The Telnet BBS Guide is your complete listing of over 700 Telnet BBS systems in the world.

(2019). Semantics of the internet: a political history. Internet Histories: Vol. 3, No. 3-4, pp. 275-292.

Digital Technology, Culture and Society Frequency: Yearly ISSN: 2470-1475 eISSN: 2470-1483 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24701475.2019.1704495 Abstract Our goal in this article is to understand the historical sequences as well as consequences of the internet on the development of the academic field of communication. As a field that has one foot in the study of a most basic and necessary human activity, and another foot in the study of innovative technology, has scholarship in the field of communication followed internet developments? Is there a lag between technological develo...

Everything about my Internet projects.

The plunge in UAL stock was started by a series of human and machine errors and raised questions about the struggles of some traditional media companies to adapt to the Internet age.

I have spent the last week inventorying Riding the Meridian, an important journal founded by Jennifer Ley that published five issues, from 1999-2003, comprising 262 works produced by some of the world’s most notable artists and writers. In the coming weeks the ELL Team will move the information I created into an Excel spreadsheet into…

In June of 2015, Alex Russell, a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, published a blog post. In the post, […]

This collection contains .tar or .zip files of the collections of these sites, which are then browsable using the Internet Archive's archive view functionality. Created in 1971 (and refined in 1985), the File Transfer Protocol allowed Internet or network-connected computers to transfer binary and...

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