David and others, In my classes, I've used the different waves of users to shape the history of the net; see Guise 1998: 'Looking Backward and Forward at the Internet' in The Information Society 14(3). It's another angle and rather simple - and good to take the discussions beyond the technology in itself. However - sometimes I wonder if it isn't too early to grasp the net's history; we might need some more 'time distance' to recognize/reconstruct the patterns of importance... Stine david silver wrote:
i'm curious about this notion of two stages of the internet. if i'm reading the paragraph correctly, the authors suggest the net has had two stages: before and after the dot.com crash. i'm interested in hearing what others think about this concept of a two-staged internet history.