Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory

by Ian Milligan

How the internet's memory infrastructure developed--averting a "digital dark age"--and introduced a golden age of historical memory.

In early 1996, the web was ephemeral. But by 2001, the internet was forever. How did websites transform from having a brief life to becoming long-lasting? Drawing on archival material from the Internet Archive and exclusive interviews, Ian Milligan's Averting the Digital Dark Age explores how Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421450135
• ISBN13: 9781421450131
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"