The Web has been with us now for almost 25 years. An integral part of our social, cultural and political lives, 'new media' is simply not that new anymore. Despite the rapidly expanding archives of information at our disposal, and the recent growth of interest in web history as a field of research, the information available to us still far outstrips our understanding of how to interpret it.

Foreword: The Web as Counterpart - Steve JonesIntroduction - Niels Brügger & Ian MilliganPart 01: The Web and HistoriographyChapter 1: Historiography and the Web - Ian MilliganChapter 2: Understanding the Archived Web as a Historical Source - Niels BrüggerChapter 3: Existing Web Archives - Peter WebsterChapter 4: Periodizing web archiving: Biographical, event-based, national and autobiographical traditions - Richard RogersPart 02: Theoretical and Methodological ReflectionsChapter 5: Web History in Context - Valérie Schafer & Benjamin G. ThierryChapter 6: Science and Technology Studies Approaches to Web History - Francesca Musiani & Valérie SchaferChapter 7: Theorizing the Uses of the Web - Ralph SchroederChapter 8: Ethical considerations for web archives and web history research - Stine LomborgChapter 9: Collecting Primary Sources from Web Archives: A Tale of Scarcity and Abundance - Federico NanniChapter 10: Network Analysis for Web History - Michael Stevenson & Anat Ben-DavidChapter 11: Quantitative Web History methods - Anthony CoccioloChapter 12: Computational Methods for Web History - Anat Ben-David & Adam AmramChapter 13: Visualizing Historical Web Data - Justin JoquePart 03: Technical and Structural Dimensions of Web HistoryChapter 14: Adding the Dimension of Time to HTTP - Michael L. Nelson & Herbert Van de SompelChapter 15: Hypertext Before the Web - or, What the Web Could Have Been - Belinda BarnetChapter 16: A historiography of the hyperlink: Periodizing the web through the changing role of the hyperlink - Anne HelmondChapter 17: How Search Shaped and Was Shaped by the Web - Alexander HalavaisChapter 18: Making the Web Meaningful: A History of Web Semantics - Lindsay PoirierChapter 19: Browsers and Browser Wars - Marc WeberChapter 20: Emergence of the Mobile Web - Gerard GogginPart 04: Platforms on the WebChapter 21: Wikipedia - Andy FamigliettiChapter 22: A Critical Political Economy of Web Advertising History - Matthew CrainChapter 23: Exploring Web Archives in the Age of Abundance: A Social History Case Study of GeoCities - Ian MilliganChapter 24: Blogs - Ignacio SilesChapter 25: The History of Online Social Media - Christina Ortner, Philip Sinner & Tanja JadinPart 05: Web History and Users, some Case StudiesChapter 26: Cultural Historiography of the 'Homepage' - Madhavi MallapragadaChapter 27: Consumers, News and a History of Change - Allie Kosterich & Matthew WeberChapter 28: Historical studies of national web domains - Niels Brügger & Ditte LaursenChapter 29: The Origins of Electronic Literature as Net/Web Art - James O'Sullivan & Dene GrigarChapter 30: Exploring the memory of the First World War using web archives: web graphs seen from different angles - Valérie Beaudouin, Zeynep Pehlivan & Peter StirlingChapter 31: A History with Web Archives, Not a History of Web Archives: A History of the British Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine Crisis, 1998-2004 - Gareth MillwardChapter 32: Religion and Web history - Peter WebsterChapter 33: Hearing the Past: The Sonic Web from MIDI to Music Streaming - Jeremy Wade MorrisChapter 34: Memes - Jim McGrathChapter 35: Years of the Internet: Vernacular creativity before, on and after the Chinese Web - Gabriele de SetaChapter 36: Cultural, political and technical factors influencing early Web uptake in North America and East Asia - Mark McLellandChapter 37: Online pornography - Susanna PaasonenChapter 38: Spam - Finn BruntonChapter 39: Trolls and Trolling History: From Subculture to Mainstream Practices - Michael NycykPart 06: The Roads AheadChapter 40: Web archives and (digital) history: a troubled past and a promising future? - Jane Winters