Wie aus amerikanischen "heißen Kartoffeln" in Europa "Packet Switching" wurde und warum es IBM zu verdanken ist, dass der englische Mathematiker Donald Watts Davies die Chance erhielt, vor Postmonopolisten über Computernetzwerke zu reden: Teil vier der futurezone.ORF.at-Serie "Europa und das Netz".
Grassroots Feminism: Establishing a transnational community platform and living history archive The preconception of youth, and in particular of girls and young women, as culturally unproductive and as passive consumers of mass culture and media is still very much ingrained today. However, girls and young women are capable cultural producers who create a wide variety of their own films, music, media, and festivals. To gain insight into and to document the cultural spaces girls and young women create and the meaning they have, it is vital to look closely at their own cultural spaces - and not only at media produced for them (which is done more frequently).
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to alt.fan.dave_barry on usenet; a 2000-person strong mailing list also reading pirated versions; and a teenager in the Midwest who was doing some of the copying himself, because he loved Barry’s work so much he wanted everybody to be able to read it.
This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.
"In den nächsten fünf bis zehn Jahren wird die nächste Milliarde ans Internet andocken: Menschen aus Indien, China, Südamerika und Afrika. Immer mehr werden weltweit ihre Stimme erheben." Davon geht Jimmy Wales aus, der Mitbegründer der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia.
Vivarium is the home of digitized manuscripts, art, rare books, photographs, and other resources from two Benedictine monastic and educational communities in central Minnesota. It is a searchable database delivering a variety of digital objects. Vivarium was created and is maintained by the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Collections in Vivarium: Vivarium contains a number of collections from various members of the CSB/SJU community. Each collection has its own custom home page with enhanced searching tools. Note: certain collections are restricted to on-campus access only.
"This Web page draws together a variety of different types of activities and projects related to the History of Information Science and technology as they have been documented on the World Wide Web. These projects and activities represent the work of organizations, associations, and, particularly, individual historians with an interest in the history of Information Science and technology."