Jugend Jahre der Netzkritik Essays Zu Web 1.0 (1995-1997)

<p>This PDF / Print-on-Demand issue brings together a selection of texts in which the media theoreticians and nettime founders Pit Schultz and Geert Lovink jointly formulated the main features of the network critique concept between 1995 and 1997. At that time published in German in scattered publications and largely forgotten in the meantime, they are now published for the first time collected. They provide a glimpse into the early stages of the development of the Internet and the beginning of a critical debate characterized by a particular joy in discussion and speculation. The Internet was not yet a ubiquitous reality, but its future potential was already foreseeable. At the center of these texts is the criticism of the cyberutopias at the time, which laid the foundation for the later dotcom mania.</p>