internetnews.com’s Roy Mark reports on the guy who’s documenting the dot-com era for the Library of Congress. I bought a URL back in the day, dotcomrelics.com, with some never-realized ambition of chronicling all I’d seen. Am so glad to see someone’s doing it for real. His name is David Kirch, and he’s assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland.
From the story:
“We’re trying to document the history of the era in its own medium,” Kirch said. “I firmly believe that 100 years from now, historians will be studying what happened in the 1990s in the United States from a business history angle. If we want to give them a legacy that allows them to actually understand what happened, we need to collect the ones and zeros now.”