{"content":[{"text":"© 2002 The Charles Babbage Institute for the History of Information Technology \n 211 Andersen Library, 222 – 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.196152,"width":0.537895,"height":0.03117000000000003}},{"text":"Researching the History of Software: Mining \n Internet Resources in the “Old World,” “New \n World,” and the “Wild West”","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.256878,"width":0.572206,"height":0.08374999999999999}},{"text":"Juliet Burba \n University of Minnesota","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.356924,"width":0.19159500000000002,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"Philip L. Frana \n Charles Babbage Institute","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.409197,"width":0.202666,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"Date published: 13 September 2002","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.46191,"width":0.234387,"height":0.016776000000000013}},{"text":"Sanity is a madness put to good uses.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.494985,"width":0.291997,"height":0.01849999999999996}},{"text":"So \n wrote the great philosopher and poet Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de \n Santayana in his essay “The Elements and Function of Poetry.”1 Without doubt, \n the advent of the early Web unleashed a mania, an unreasonable recklessness that \n to this day resists being swept back under the rug. How can we tease “sanity” out \n of the Web? Can the historian put this madness to good use?","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.527787,"width":0.6398870000000001,"height":0.09904599999999997}},{"text":"When the World Wide Web made its debut in the early 1990s, it resembled a \n pageant that only a parent could love. The Internet Movie Database, the \n WebCrawler search engine, the Web cam of an isolated unbent spoon and its \n associated challenge to the telekinetic Uri Geller—those were “reliable” sites. \n Indeed, the most useful sites looked suspiciously like they had been ripped from \n Internet Gopher menus. Even Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web (later \n rechristened “Yahoo!”) could not be judged an entirely trustworthy directory in \n those days.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.64147,"width":0.6288580000000001,"height":0.142181}},{"text":"Already it is difficult to remember a time when banner advertising could be used \n as a legitimate navigational tool, when sessions running a Mosaic browser with its \n (usually slowly) pulsing upper right-hand image of Earth and two orbiting plan- \n etoids seemed interminable, and where alternatives to the hand-coding of new \n Web pages did not exist.","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.798288,"width":0.645705,"height":0.08990900000000002}},{"text":"1","bbox":{"left":0.495098,"top":0.934803,"width":0.00980399999999998,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.178039,"top":0.092121,"width":0.612745,"height":0.087121}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.178039,"top":0.092121,"width":0.612745,"height":0.087121}]}