"Researching the History of Software: Mining Internet Resources in the “Old World,”“New World,” and the “Wild West”" by Juliet Burba

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Researching the History of Software: Mining Internet Resources in the “Old World,”“New World,” and the “Wild West”

Iterations: A Journal of Software History (2002)

Juliet Burba
Philip L Frana, James Madison University

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Abstract

So wrote the great philosopher and poet Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana in his essay" The Elements and Function of Poetry."[1] Without doubt, the advent of the early Web unleashed a mania, an unreasonable recklessness that to this day resists being swept back under the rug. How can we tease" sanity" out of the Web? Can the historian put this madness to good use?

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Computer Sciences

Publication Date

September 13, 2002

Citation Information

Juliet Burba and Philip L Frana. "Researching the History of Software: Mining Internet Resources in the “Old World,”“New World,” and the “Wild West”" Iterations: A Journal of Software History Vol. 1 (2002)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/philip_frana/5/