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Having it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early web

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dc.creatorStevenson, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-31T09:52:40Z
dc.date.available2020-07-31T09:52:40Z
dc.date.issued2018-10-04
dc.description.abstractWhat image defines the 1990s web? Perhaps it is an “under construction” gif, a “starry night” background or some other fragment of what net artist and scholar Olia Lialina dubbed “a vernacular web” (2005). If not a vernacular, perhaps a sign of an increasingly commercial and professional web – the first banner ad, announcing that this particular information superhighway would be dotted with billboards and shopping malls, or a jutting line graph showing the precipitous rise of the Nasdaq composite index. Of course, the answer is both, or all of the above. The 90s web was defined by its contradictions: amateur and professional, playful and serious, free and incorporated. Early descriptions of the World Wide Web’s significance oscillated between, on the one hand, an accessible and open alternative to walled gardens like America Online, and on the other hand an electronic frontier ripe for commercializationen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14029
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14985
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeLondon
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2470-1483
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInternet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectInternetde
dc.subjectMediengeschichtede
dc.subjectPerlde
dc.subjectSoftwarede
dc.subjectProgrammiersprachede
dc.subjectOpen Sourcede
dc.subject.personLarry Wall
dc.titleHaving it both ways: Larry Wall, Perl and the technology and culture of the early weben
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T01:00:35
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2018.1495810
local.source.epage280
local.source.issue3-4
local.source.spage264
local.source.volume2
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/138937079
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92597

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