{"id":26840,"date":"2025-05-20T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?page_id=26840"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:01:24","slug":"hist1900a-the-history-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/hist1900a-the-history-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"HIST1900A: The History of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        HIST 1900A: The History of the Internet\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HIST1900A: The History of the Internet<br>Fall 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Instructor: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/cu-people\/shawn-graham\/\">Professor Shawn Graham<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018history of the internet\u2019 is more than the history of a particular package of technologies. It certainly didn\u2019t start in 1993 with the invention of the world wide web. It didn\u2019t start in the 1970s with the ARPAnet. In fact, if the \u2018internet\u2019 is what happens when communication technologies are linked together, then the story goes back much further indeed. And it\u2019s a story about power, people, culture, and materials. We will begin with the present enshittified internet and its allied technologies. Then we\u2019ll move backwards to see how we got to that. Then we\u2019ll take another step backwards. And so on\u2026 until what we have ended up with is a history of human communications. My goal in this course is also to help you develop and exercise your own connection-making abilities, because that is the essence of human communication. There will be many in-class <em>handwritten<\/em> activities to that end. The internet is a <em>process <\/em>as much as anything else, and assessment will be geared towards your thinking processes accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIST1900A: The History of the InternetFall 2025 Instructor: Professor Shawn Graham The \u2018history of the internet\u2019 is more than the history of a particular package of technologies. It certainly didn\u2019t start in 1993 with the invention of the world wide web. It didn\u2019t start in the 1970s with the ARPAnet. In fact, if the \u2018internet\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[303],"class_list":["post-26840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cu_page_type-general"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27491,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26840\/revisions\/27491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=26840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}