Retrospection and Attribution in the History of Arpanet and the Internet

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Ilkka Tuomi

Yayın yılı:

2006

Yayıncı:

Oxford University Press

This chapter addresses the question of retrospection and attribution of authorship. If innovations are to an important part created by their users, and the meaning of innovation is reconstructed from the present position, how should we read historical accounts that describe the evolution of technology? And to whom should the credit go? By analysing newspaper articles that have discussed the Internet during the last fifteen years, the chapter shows how the common understanding of ‘the Internet’ has evolved. It argues that the heroes of innovation are mental reconstructions, but so is the technology itself.

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