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Untangling the Web: a guide to internet research [pdf]

25 points| mocy | 13 years ago |nsa.gov | reply

8 comments

[+] uvdiv|13 years ago|reply

Screenshots of mostly-text web pages, compressed to JPEGs, pasted into a Word document, printed to hardcopy in two-level greyscale, annotated with a rubber stamp (or typewriter?), scanned again at low dpi, converted to PDF (39 MB), and drop-published into an unnavigable /_files/ folder, all towards its goal of teaching internet literacy to others.

[+] LowKarmaAccount|13 years ago|reply

Sounds like Web 0.1 to me [1]

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1.aspx

[+] ashmud|13 years ago|reply

My guess is it was faxed (or poorly photocopied).

[+] hox|13 years ago|reply

Welcome to the federal government.

[+] throwaway2718|13 years ago|reply

Scribd is broken without javascript. Here is a better link:

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf

[+] drorweiss|13 years ago|reply

Wow, ancient web history. I suspect it was already outdated when it was written...

[+] serf|13 years ago|reply

you nearly took a line out of the book. Third paragraph, page five,

"I cannot emphasize strongly enough that this book was already out of date by the time it was published"

[+] sdevine|13 years ago|reply

This document is 4 months younger than IE 7.