9 Books to Celebrate the Anniversary of the World Wide Web
On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee made a proposal designed to improve the CERN communication system through digital file sharing. He soon realized that the concept could be used throughout the world.
These novels feature websites, online communities, and the Internet:
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The Circle by Dave Eggers
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
A woman is thrilled by her new job at the world's most powerful Internet company but comes to realize that it is not as idyllic as she believes.
Kiss Me First by Lottie Mogach
• Audiobook
• eBook
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
Leila, a lonely, isolated woman joins an online chat room where she is enticed into pretending to be someone else online but soon discovers that the task is eroding her own identity.
Note to Self by Alina Simone
A woman discovers that her online life is preventing her from fully participating in real life events.
Notes from the Internet Apocalypse by Wayne Gladstone
When the Internet stops working, people are forced to recreate their 'net activities in real life–poking each other, forcing cats to be "cute", and speaking in 140 character bursts.
Ripper by Isabel Allende
• Audiobook
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
• Talking Book (restricted to Print Disabled patrons)
An international group of online gamers try to solve real-life murders.
These books began life as websites, tumblrs and blogs:
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Dear Photograph by Taylor B. Jones
• eBook
The Dear Photograph website asks users to return to the site where a photograph was taken, hold up the original picture and take a new one. The book includes 140 of the images.
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
In 2010, Stanton set out to photograph New Yorkers and post the pictures on line but soon found that it was more interesting to talk to them. His blog now includes a quote or story from his subject and the result is funny, touching, and inspirational. I'm a big fan of the website.
Maddie on Things: a Super Serious Project about Dogs and Physics by Theron Humphrey
• eBook
Photographer Humphrey began taking pictures of his coonhound Maddie standing on various things. The book, website and dog are adorable.
The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide edited by Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor
Talmadge and Taylor began documenting tattoos related to literature. It became a book in 2010.
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