WiWiW stands for: Who is Who in the Internet World. Its main goal is to leave a digital-recorded register of the ideas which lead the main internet pioneers to made the Net as we know it today. Rejecting other than primary-sourced histories from the founders, and deployers.
This idea started as a hobby during the field work of Dr. Andreu Veà's doctoral thesis. After more than ten years of interviewing Internet Pioneers, impelled by Dr Vint Cerf's interest on the project he quit his job when he was invited by Stanford University (California, USA) where he is an Internet Research Scholar since early 2003. The WiWiW Project is privately funded and backed up by a continuously growing research group from several places (Palo Alto, Barcelona, Madrid, San Francisco, Washington, Oakland, Valencia, Vienna etc.).
La próxima semana se lleva a cabo la presentación europea del proyecto WiWiW en España: El dia 13 de Septiembre en Madrid [pdf] y el 15 en Barcelona [pdf]. Creo que es una idea interesante, siempre es bueno hacer algo de historia para entender la situación actual, e internet, por muy reciente que sea como medio, tiene un apasionante pasado.
Es por invitación pero sólo hace falta contactar con Rosaura. Voy a ir a la presentación de Barcelona, si alguien se pasa por allí que salude :))
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