Gitelman

Where is the word Internet from? Who was the first person to mention it? When was the first time that somebody spoke about Internet? These and few other questions are answered in Lisa Gitelmans text, "always already new", in which small story about what is Internet is narrated. In the first part of this text Gitelman makes reference to a investigation of a website about the search for the word internet in previous editions of the new york times, editions that go more than one hundred years ago, you may be wondering what the word internet was doing in those newspapers so long ago? Sorry to disappoint you, but that was an orthographic mistake, the firsts references to the word internet date about twenty years ago, in 1990, when the first web page was edited in the CERN. (Curiosity: currently the CERN is trying to prove the existence of "Gods Particle" which is supposed to be a force that holds atoms together.)

The following part is focused in the history of websites; about the duration theses sites may have in the World Wide Web. There is also a fun fact in the paper, because the author mentions a brief story about the annoying and hateful error 404, which may happen when one of 404 principal functions of a web site is not working properly and the code 404 comes automatic.

Another point, which is important in this brief introduction to the history of Internet, is the apparition of bibliographic and citation styles, which had to be initiated from scratch and must be constantly actualized due to the constant changes in the web.

For someone who had never been in touch with digital media academically speaking, like me, this text may turn tedious and difficult to read, but after a few tries the text flows again.

Once done with the reading, I had to check again the main ideas of the text, to be sure I did understand what I reading due to the image what was not very clear.

It is so amazing learning where does the internet come from, because we are so used to it that we barely stop to think about it and how it works.