Volume 10, Issue 3 of Internet Histories

The study examines how web metrics became professionalised in Luxembourg from the 1990s to 2005, linking national developments to the rise of the online advertising industry. It traces key actors, ...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...

Volume 10, Issue 1-2 of Internet Histories

This article looks back on the period that preceded the launch of Internet Histories, the new academic journal, conceived as a platform for the many histories of the internet yet to be told. It add...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

This article analyses how Brazil’s early Internet was represented in two distinct sectors of its cultural field: television drama and print journalism. Focusing on Glória Perez’s Explode Coração (R...

This article analyses the material arrangements and institutional contexts through which data practices became workable in concrete settings before and alongside the rise of the web. It explores ho...

This article presents a case study of the Flash software platform, used for the development of internet applications. I will situate Flash within a media history of databases by examining its initi...

Following the 6th RESAW conference held at the University of Siegen in June 2025, we extended the conversation through follow-up discussions with selected participants, including both keynote speak...

The client that is used to connect to a server serves a function that is almost as important as the server itself. The client governs how a user is able to interact with a digital system, the actio...

In their first 10 years (2015–2025), augmented reality (AR) filters have transformed from a nascent social media novelty to a ubiquitous affordance across most social media platforms. The ascendanc...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

Recent research in game studies has been inspired by postcolonial critical thinking to denounce the inequalities prevalent in many video games. While such critical analyses are conducted by academi...

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In this paper, we examine the commercial development of packet based data networks in the UK, primarily through the lens of the largest player BT. We describe how network portfolios evolved to addr...

Today, a variety of actors, including traditional journalists, activists, and NGO workers, are using digital media and data to investigate emerging injustices, especially in the context of crises a...

The election of Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019 prompted a rapid digital transformation in Ukraine that affected different societal sectors, from the economy to politics and education. However, digitisa...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union struggled to develop a powerful computer industry. While it competed evenly with the USA in space flight, nuclear technology and advanced weaponry for decades,...

This article examines the shared history of digital infrastructure between Canada’s now defunct telecom monopoly, Nortel Networks, and the newly independent states of Eastern and Central Europe (EC...

Since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, internet and telecommunication infrastructure became one of the primary targets for Russian forces. While media coverage has largely centred on phy...

This article proposes de-centring the Russia-focused history of the Soviet computer networks by engaging with the developments in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Although in Lithuania the compute...

This article proposes de-centring the Russia-focused history of the Soviet computer networks by engaging with the developments in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Although in Lithuania the compute...

The historiographical treatment of Albania often depicts isolation. However, its computer network history reveals the flows of information, commodities and individuals between Albania and the world...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2026)

In Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), the Supreme Court encountered the internet and defined it as a speech system protected by the First Amendment. Nearly 30 years later, this view is ubiquitous. ...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Volume 9, Issue 4 of Internet Histories

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The history of the internet has too often privileged engineers and entrepreneurs, obscuring the everyday labour that sustained its social foundations. This article recovers that history through the...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Explore issues on platform-side Trust & Safety, a professional field dedicated to user safety and platform integrity.

The Open Forum of AIDS Info BBS was a pioneering digital platform that emerged during the early HIV/AIDS crisis to address critical gaps in reliable information amidst widespread institutional fail...

Published in Internet Histories: Digital Technology, Culture and Society (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Volume 9, Issue 3 of Internet Histories

Gender in Internet and Web History. Volume 9, Issue 1-2 of Internet Histories

Publishes research into the history of the internet, from early computer networks, Usenet, mobile technology and the internet of things.