History of Socialable Web
Vanener Bush
Ernst Junger
Claire Bishop
John Cage: 4 mins and 33 seconds
Setting up a stage for induce sociability.
1957: Sputnik
DARPA, first maps of the internet
J.C.R Licklider and Robert W. Taylor - communication through not face to face but through a machine.
1952: Umberto ECO: The open Work--open doesn't mean participation, open means interpretation.
1989: History and the social web, August C. Krey
1968: Death of the Author -- Roland Bartes
Why is important to identify yourself when writing online
Fernando Corbato:
Ray Tomlinson: created connections between multiple computers.
Project Gutenberg: Digitizing books online
Doug Engelbart: inventor of the computer mouse
Tim Berners Lee + hypertext--facilitate sharing of information among researcher.
Fido Network: network of bulletin Board System
The Well- one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation was founded
Performance
"Immaterial"
Online interaction
LucasFilm's Habitat
GroupWare--IRC
How does the world wide web established itself at useful tool
Difference between the Internet and World Wide Web:
"on the internet, nobody knows you're the dog" (Peter Steiner)
1995: Social networking site
classmates.com
OUTeverywhere.com
Craigslist -- created by Craig Newmark
Dream in Code
ebay.com
match.com
1996: Internet went commercial(hosting services
1997: Asian Ave, Bolt, QUEPASA, Sulekha
1991: Benjamin Anderson "Imagine Communities"
1993: Howard Reinhold
1994: the world's longest sentence
1995: <Nettime> - a space which was use for discourse, The Thing- an internet service provider and small independent media center
1996: Rise of the Information Society by Manuel Castells