History of the Danish web 1992-1997
Read about how a researcher is writing a cultural and media history of the Danish web 1992-1997 based on material from the library's netarkivet.
Photo: webhistorie.dk
The main purpose of the project "Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s" is to write a cultural and media history of the early development of the internet in Denmark.
The study focuses on the history of the Danish web 1992-97 based on the material which Royal Danish Library's netarkivet has acquired from the Internet Archive.
More about the project
| Project name | Histories of the Danish web in the 1990s |
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| Researcher | Niels Brügger, professor, Department of Communication and Culture - Media Studies, Aarhus University |
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| Service from Royal Danish Library | The Internet Archive has released the material from the Internet Archive |
| Material from Royal Danish Library | All Danish web pages archived by the Internet Archive during the period, and which netarkivet has acquired from it. The material is provided as web archive files, so-called WARC files, which makes it very easy to work with it in SolrWayback, the web archive interface which netarkivet has also developed, for example in the form of free text search, exporting parts of the material (images, text, and so forth). |
| Contact at Royal Danish Library | Ask the library |
The researcher elaborates
The idea of writing the history of the Danish web has been maturing for several years, and in 2014 I launched the project “Probing a Nation's Web Domain – the Historical Development of the Danish Web”, which focused on studying the entire Danish web 2005-2015 using the content of the national Danish web archive, netarkivet, and using digital methods. This project ran until the early 2020s.
After that, I could see that I had to go back to the beginning of the World Wide Web in Denmark, that is, the 1990s, in order to understand the following years. Therefore, my current project examines the history of the Danish web in the 1990s, from computer networks in the period before the WWW came to Denmark, through the establishment of the first Danish website in 1992, to the spring of 1995, when the Danish web really grew, and finally to the beginning of 1997, when private individuals could buy a domain name at .dk, whereby the number of domain names doubled in less than six months.
In order to carry out this project, netarkivet's material is an indispensable resource.
