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For One Week Only: King James Bible

Posted on January 11, 2011 by cpjobling

2011 apparently marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. To mark the occasion, the BBC made a bit of a splash last week with a sequence of three forty-five minute documentaries fronted by James Naughtie … Continue reading →

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Internet at 40

Posted on October 26, 2009 by cpjobling

I’ve just spent the afternoon with the wonderful celebration piece A people’s history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today that was published last Friday on the Guardian Technology website. What’s amazing to me is how recent it … Continue reading →

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History of Electrical Engineering on the Web

Posted on May 23, 2008 by cpjobling

One of the highlight’s of yesterday’s History of Computing Collection launch was Steve William’s presentation of the history of the University’s web site which he gathered from the Way Back Machine at the Internet Archive. As I developed the Department … Continue reading →

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Another Hero: Ward Cunnigham

Posted on May 28, 2007 by cpjobling

Another hero on video. This time Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the WikiWikiWeb, interviewed by John Gage of Sun Microsystems at the Computer History Museum. As well as Wiki, Ward discusses other key developments, such as Class-Resources-Collaboration (CRC) cards, Software … Continue reading →

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