HIST1900a Fall 2025 Presentation Library

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• Sept 3. Welcome & Getting Started
  What this is all about.
• Sept 8. The Web Makes Me Miserable
  The current state of things.
• Sept 10. Enshittification
  A new word for an old thing.
• Sept 15. Web 2.0: The Golden Age?
  New ways of interacting on the web require new techs.
• Sept 17. First Précis/Research Memo
  Here's what we'll do.
• Sept 22. Dot Com Goes Boom.
  Irrational Exuberance.
• Sept 24. Web 1.0, GeoCities, and Browser Wars.
  How To Be Web.
• Feedback Re the First Précis & Memo
  Part of a Longer History.
• Oct 1. Hypertext.
  Another Long History.
• Oct 6. BBS.
  An internet without the internet.
• Oct 8. Games & Learning to Be Online (also, MUDs).
  What teaches us to be online? Games.
• Oct 15. The ARPANet Gets Created.
  It ain't about the nukes.