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11 August 2025
- 15:5515:55, 11 August 2025 diff hist +7,640 N Brake 2001 Created page with "Brake, Laurel. ''Print in Transition, 1850-1910: Studies in Media and Book History.'' Palgrave, 2001. "By 1891 then, the conceptual separation of literature from journalism is clear on both sides, not only from the newspaper press (which had become more inclusive of literary news and reviews) but within the ranks of the army of part-time writers for the periodical press whom Shand called 'the brilliant half-amateurs' ([Shand] 1878: 650). Gosse was one of these, and Geo..." current
- 15:5415:54, 11 August 2025 diff hist +119 Main Page →Book History
18 June 2025
- 09:0809:08, 18 June 2025 diff hist +5 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types current
17 June 2025
- 08:5108:51, 17 June 2025 diff hist +1,818 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types
16 June 2025
- 07:3607:36, 16 June 2025 diff hist +21,246 N Jepsen 2000 Created page with "Jepsen, My Sisters Telegraphic Jepsen - My Sisters Telegraphic_ Women In Telegraph Office 1846-1950 (2001, Ohio University Press) In the mid-nineteenth century, women telegraph operators entered a challenging, competitive technological field in which they competed di- rectly with men, demanding, and occasionally getting, equal pay and some- times moving into management and senior technical positions. Women telegraphers constituted a subculture of technically educated..." current
14 June 2025
- 14:4014:40, 14 June 2025 diff hist +2,270 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 14:3914:39, 14 June 2025 diff hist +786 Logotypes →The History and Advantages of Combination Type (1861)
- 13:5313:53, 14 June 2025 diff hist +1,477 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 13:5313:53, 14 June 2025 diff hist −1,419 Logotypes →Tobitt combination types
- 13:5213:52, 14 June 2025 diff hist +1,420 Logotypes →Beniowski
13 June 2025
- 18:0518:05, 13 June 2025 diff hist +1,538 Logotypes →Beniowski
- 15:1115:11, 13 June 2025 diff hist +6,156 Logotypes →Beniowski
2 June 2025
- 13:4513:45, 2 June 2025 diff hist +170 N Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011 Created page with "Park, David W., Nicholas W. Jankowski, and Steve Jones, eds. ''The Long History of New Media: Technology, Historiography, and Contextualizing Newness.'' Peter Lang, 2011."
27 May 2025
16 May 2025
- 20:5720:57, 16 May 2025 diff hist +6,601 N Marvin 1990 Created page with "Marvin, ''When Old Technologies Were New'' If our own experience is unique in detail, its structure is characteristically modern. It starts with the invention of the telegraph, the first of the electrical communications machines, as significant a break with the past as print- ing before it. In a historical sense, the computer is no more than an instantaneous telegraph with a prodigious memory, and all the com- munications inventions in between have simply been elaborati..." current
- 20:5620:56, 16 May 2025 diff hist +3,530 Headrick 2000 No edit summary current
- 20:5520:55, 16 May 2025 diff hist +4,240 N Duguid 2015 Created page with "Duguid, "The Ageing of Information" …in the eighteenth century information deserves to be read as a keyword in discussions about relations between mind and world and between indi- vidual and state. Paradoxically, I conclude that reading information in eighteenth-century context reveals a trajectory similar to ideas of ‘‘informa- tion’’ in the twentieth—from youthful enthusiasm to aged suspicion and circumspection—thus making Foucauldian and Habermasian ana..." current
- 20:5320:53, 16 May 2025 diff hist +151 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5220:52, 16 May 2025 diff hist +163 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist +849 Main Page →Bibliography
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist −847 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 20:5120:51, 16 May 2025 diff hist +241 Headrick 2000 No edit summary
- 20:4920:49, 16 May 2025 diff hist +362 N Headrick 2000 Created page with "Headrick, ''When Information Came of Age'' There have always been numerate people, for merchants and bureaucrats had been keeping accounts since ancient times. What was new in the Age of Reason and Revolution was the idea that numbers could be used to analyze something other than money, such as population, health and illness, nature, or even divine Providence"
- 20:4820:48, 16 May 2025 diff hist +10,682 N Beniger 1986 Created page with "Beniger, James. The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard UP, 1986. Human society seems rather to evolve largely through changes so gradual as to be all but imperceptible, at least compared to the generational cycles of the individuals through whose lives they unfold. Second, contemporaries of major societal transformations are frequently distracted by events and trends more dramatic in immediate impact but less las..."
- 20:4720:47, 16 May 2025 diff hist +162 Main Page →History of Computing
- 20:4520:45, 16 May 2025 diff hist +58 Telegraphy No edit summary
- 20:4520:45, 16 May 2025 diff hist +56 Telegraphy No edit summary
15 May 2025
- 17:5717:57, 15 May 2025 diff hist +1,956 Stephenson 1996 No edit summary current
- 17:4117:41, 15 May 2025 diff hist +2,730 N Stephenson 1996 Created page with "https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ revisit Porthcurno Museum bit at the end -- glass tube of ink recording incoming signals, like the glass wires of fiber optic cable; clock mechanism similar to quartz clock in modern computer "This is precisely the same function that is performed by the quartz clock chip at the heart of any modern computing device. The job performed by the regenerator/retransmitter is also perfectly recog..."
- 17:2117:21, 15 May 2025 diff hist +96 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology
- 14:0714:07, 15 May 2025 diff hist +115 Main Page →Avant-Garde / Artists' Books
- 14:0614:06, 15 May 2025 diff hist +465 N Macken 2018 Created page with "Macken, Marian. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice. Routledge, 2018. "Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representation and spatial thinking. ''Binding Space: The book as Spatial Practice'' examines the outcomes of housing spatial representation within the format of the artists' book and the possibilities for documenting space within the book." (1)" current
- 14:0414:04, 15 May 2025 diff hist +100 Main Page →Avant-Garde / Artists' Books
- 14:0314:03, 15 May 2025 diff hist +1,564 N Castleman 1994 Created page with "Castleman, Riva. ''A Century of Artists Books.'' Museum of Modern Art, 1994. "Several ground-breaking examples of the diretions in which artists wished to take books at the end of the nineteenth century are studied before a description of the collaborative aspects of making books is given. Producing books in more than one copy is always a matter of organization and having money to pay for the costs. Entrepreneurs who felt inspired by art and books and who cultivated art..." current
- 13:5913:59, 15 May 2025 diff hist +95 Main Page →Avant-Garde / Dada / Surrealism
14 May 2025
- 15:5515:55, 14 May 2025 diff hist +85 Mechanical typesetting No edit summary current
- 15:3115:31, 14 May 2025 diff hist +234 Typewriters No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 14 May 2025 diff hist +107 From Type to .txt No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 14 May 2025 diff hist +244 Typewriters No edit summary
- 15:2415:24, 14 May 2025 diff hist +161 Typewriters No edit summary
- 15:1115:11, 14 May 2025 diff hist +395 Mechanical typesetting No edit summary
- 14:5014:50, 14 May 2025 diff hist +486 N Logotypes Created page with " == Stanhope typecases == https://www.google.com/books/edition/Oxf_Hist_Soc/oDcNAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=stanhope+%22enfield%27s+speaker%22&pg=PA408&printsec=frontcover https://www.google.com/books/edition/Collectanea_Third_Series/7WkJAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=earl+stanhope+type+cases&pg=PA409&printsec=frontcover some logotypes == Beniowski == https://www.google.com/books/edition/Parliamentary_Papers/aqQSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=beniowski+logotypes&pg=PA98&printsec..."
- 14:5014:50, 14 May 2025 diff hist 0 From Type to .txt No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 14 May 2025 diff hist +15 From Type to .txt No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 14 May 2025 diff hist +31 Early computing devices No edit summary
- 14:3914:39, 14 May 2025 diff hist −39 From Type to .txt No edit summary
13 May 2025
- 00:4800:48, 13 May 2025 diff hist +129 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology
- 00:4600:46, 13 May 2025 diff hist +72 Main Page →Gender / Tech
- 00:4600:46, 13 May 2025 diff hist +130 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology
- 00:4400:44, 13 May 2025 diff hist +256 Main Page →Gender / Tech