Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
In 1990, a CERN group of physicists led by Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML and created the prototype that would be built in 1991 as the World Wide Web. This analysis places that change within an Internet already used for email, file transfer and remote access, and explains why linked text changed the experience of finding and navigating information.
Open storyMuseums’ presence online widened access to collections, exhibitions, and documentation. Yet digitisation does not automatically equal preservation: copies, catalogue records, identifiers, and specialist interpretation are all part of an object’s meaning. A journey from early online museum publishing to today’s discussion of context.
Open storyA critical tour through the available evidence on board-game renewal from the 1970s onward: European design, the market transformation of the 1990s, and a constellation of titles including Master Mind, The Settlers of Catan, Jungle Speed, Dixit, and Dobble.
Open storyThe Web began as a way to consult remote files through linked texts. This feature compares that documentary idea, developed at CERN between 1990 and 1991, with the cultural meaning browsing acquired as browsers and search tools became more widespread.
Open storyThe Historical Archive of the Puerto Cristal Museum brings together documents on a Chilean mining camp from the 1960s to the 1990s. Its scope—school, radio, warehouses, laboratory, mine and processing plant—makes it possible to read work and domestic life as parts of the same historical context.
Open storyA comparison of two milestones cited for 1992 and 1994 and today’s debates on digitisation, access, and loss of context. The available evidence traces a move from cultural content distributed through FTP to a museum’s presence on the Internet, while requiring a distinction between putting materials online and preserving their documentary meaning.
Open storyA critical reading of the transformation attributed to board games from the 1990s onward: broader supply, the circulation of so-called Eurogames, and the continuing need for stronger sector documentation.
Open storyThe Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s Internet presence in 1994 offers a way into a central question of the early Internet: preserving a digital experience is not merely a matter of saving files. It also requires recording its relationship to the institution, its collections, its uses and its limits.
Open storyThe 1990s are often identified as a turning point for the board-game industry and its study. Rather than offering a closed history of successes and labels, this article examines what the available evidence supports: a broader supply, the popularisation of Eurogames, new meeting spaces, and historical research that remains fragmented.
Open storyMega Drive, Super Nintendo Entertainment, PC Engine/TurboGrafx, CPS Changer, and Neo Geo belong to the story of “16-bit” competition. Yet the term explains a competitive era better than it establishes a conclusive technical hierarchy.
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