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Cultural History of the Internet

Cultural History of the Internet

a course at Johns Hopkins University

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  • Syllabus
    • Week 1: Visions of the Internet
    • Week 2: ARPANET
    • Week 3: Bulletin Board Systems
    • Week 4: Usenet
    • Week 5: World Wide Web
    • Week 6: GeoCities
    • Week 7: Browsers and Search
    • Week 8: Social Media
    • Week 9: Peer-to-Peer Networks
    • Week 10: Streaming
    • Week 11: Blockchain
  • Assignments
    • A1 Representation and Identity: AI Visions of Technology
    • A2 Representation: Personal Computers and Online Experience
    • A3 Regulation: Usenet and Community Moderation
    • A4 Identity and Consumption: Archaelogy of a GeoCities Site
    • A5 Production: Personal Creation on NeoCities
    • Final Circuit of Culture Project
    • Instructions for Blog Posts
  • Films
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    • Fall 2020
      • Syllabus, Fall 2020
        • Week 1, Fall 2020
        • Week 2, Fall 2020
        • Week 3, Fall 2020
        • Week 4, Fall 2020
        • Week 5, Fall 2020
        • Week 6, Fall 2020
        • Week 7, Fall 2020
        • Week 8, Fall 2020
        • Week 9, Fall 2020
        • Week 10, Fall 2020
        • Week 11, Fall 2020
      • Assignments, Fall 2020
        • A1 Representation: What the Internet Means Today (Fall 2020)
        • A2 Identity: Bulletin Board Systems (Fall 2020)
        • A3 Consumption: Lost Sites and Web Design Comparison (Fall 2020)
        • A4 Regulation: Paywalls, Takedowns, and Invitation-Only Communities (Fall 2020)
        • A5 Production: Archaeology of a Meme (Fall 2020)
        • Final Circuit of Culture Project, Fall 2020
    • Fall 2021
      • Syllabus, Fall 2021
        • Week 1, Fall 2021
        • Week 2, Fall 2021
        • Week 3, Fall 2021
        • Week 4, Fall 2021
        • Week 5, Fall 2021
        • Week 6, Fall 2021
        • Week 7, Fall 2021
        • Week 8, Fall 2021
        • Week 9, Fall 2021
        • Week 10, Fall 2021
        • Week 11, Fall 2021
      • Assignments, Fall 2021
        • A1 Representation: Before the Internet (Fall 2021)
        • A2 Production: Minitel Services (Fall 2021)
        • A3 Consumption: Lost Sites and Web Design Comparison (Fall 2021)
        • A4 Regulation: Paywalls, Takedowns, and Invitation-Only Communities (Fall 2021)
        • A5 Production: Archaeology of an NFT (Fall 2021)
    • Fall 2022
      • Final Circuit of Culture Project
      • Syllabus, Fall 2022
        • Week 1
        • Week 2
        • Week 3
        • Week 4
        • Week 6
        • Week 7
        • Week 5
        • Week 9
        • Week 10
        • Week 11
      • Assignments
        • A1 Consumption: Your Futurist Internet
        • A2 Identity: Bulletin Board Systems
        • A3 Regulation: Walled Gardens
        • A4 Representation: Search Engine Analysis
        • A5 Production: Archaeology of a Geocities Site
  • Student Projects
    • Fall 2020
      • 4chan
      • Amazon Fresh
      • Android
      • Crunchyroll
      • DeviantArt
      • Etsy
      • Exploring Friendster Through the Circuit of Culture
      • Instagram
      • iTunes
      • Korean Englishman 영국 남자
      • Minecraft
      • Netflix
      • Pinterest
      • Pirate Bay
      • R/Place
      • Robinhood
      • Roobet
      • SoundCloud
      • Spotify
      • TikTok
      • Twitch
      • Twitter
      • Wikipedia
    • Fall 2021
      • Angry Birds as Viewed through the Circuit of Culture
      • Depop: Instagram meets eBay
      • DoorDash: The New Go-To For Food Delivery
      • IMDb: Internet Movie Database
      • League of Legends
      • Naver: Maximalist Digital Giant of Korea
      • Poptropica
      • TalkinBroadway.com
      • The Cultural History of Zillow
      • Tidal
      • Tinder
      • Uber Eats
      • Vine: A Circuit of Culture
      • YouTube: Beauty Channels
    • Fall 2023
      • Exploratorium: Science of Baseball

Category: Web Design

Microsoft's Site, 2009
October 8, 2021 Web Design

Microsoft over 10 Years on The World Wide Web

Microsoft over 10 Years on The World Wide Web Microsoft has changed a lot as a company between its founding

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October 8, 2021 Lost Sites / Web Design

Web Design: Macy’s 1997 to 2010

Web Design: Macy’s 1997 to 2010 1858 was the year that Rowland Hussey Macy opened R. H. Macy and Co.

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October 6, 2021 Web Design

Nintendo’s Website: 1997 to 2011

It is no surprise that Nintendo’s official website underwent a huge transformation from the late 1990s to the early 2010s.

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October 4, 2021 Web Design

Web Design: Adopt-a-pet.com 1999 vs 2009

Web Design: Adopt-a-pet.com 1999 vs 2009 The website Adopt-a-pet.com has been serving prospective pet parents and (more importantly) animals looking

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October 12, 2020 Web Design

Yahoo!: 1996 to 2013

Yahoo’s website changed dramatically from 1996 to 2013, as with almost all websites as the Internet grew from an age

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October 11, 2020 Web Design

Radioshack Webpage History

            In 1996, there were several features already present on the Radioshack webpage. The links present on the main page

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October 9, 2020 Web Design

MSDN Then And Now

The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a website/portal for software and hardware developers.  It launched in 1992 as a CD-ROM-based

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October 9, 2020 Web Design

Johns Hopkins Homepage: 1997 to 2007

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created what we know now as the internet with his invention of the “World Wide Web”

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October 9, 2020 Web Design

The Columbus Dispatch – Earliest Internet Newspaper

The Columbus Dispatch (www.dispatch.com) is one of the first news paper organization to go online in 1980 with CompuServe dial-up

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October 9, 2020 Web Design

IBM’s Website Evolution 1996-2013

The 1990s was one of the most transformative decades of modern human history. This period saw the birth of and

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