CERN archivist Anita Hollier points me to the “World Wide Web (archives)” section of the CERN document server. It lists many documents that I’m sure would be of great interest to this group, but not much of them is available … Continue reading →

Two public pre-WWW information systems were recently shut down: France Telecom’s Minitel, after 30 years in operation, and BBC’s Ceefax, after 38 years. Both looked very much the same, but the comparison ends there. Ceefax implemented “links” as references to … Continue reading →

Nice article on the Computer History Museum in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/arts/design/computer-history-museum-in-mountain-view-calif.html (congratulations to Marc Weber)

John Allsopp of Web Directions and Style Master fame was the first guest on The Web Behind, and one of the very first things he did was to announce his Web History Timeline Project.  It’s a beautiful visualization brought to … Continue reading →