RESEARCH COLLECTION / 07 OF 10
Primary Documents.
Read the record before repeating the legend. Browse annotated archival starting points: original papers, museum-held documents, institutional records and their known limitations.
THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Source is not the same as a source claim
An original proposal establishes what an author proposed on a given date; it does not alone establish when a technology was adopted.
Transcriptions need disclosure
A transcription of Lovelace’s 1843 notes is useful for reading, but a high-confidence textual study should inspect edition history and original publication where available.
Archival metadata matters
Dates, creators, collection identifiers, scans, later annotations and preservation actions should accompany important documents.
OPEN QUESTIONS
What would settle the record?
- Is this an original scan, transcription, finding aid or later commentary?
- Who created and preserved the record?
- What exactly can this record prove?
DOCUMENT ROOM / VERIFIED STARTING POINTS
Open the source, then question it.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC STARTING POINTS
Starting sources
These are identified materials to consult, not a claim that this collection has already completed exhaustive archival verification. Source types are marked to keep later interpretation distinct from contemporary evidence.
- 01Tim Berners-Lee, “Information Management: A Proposal,” March 1989 / May 1990, CERN Repository
Original proposal / archive record
Open source record ↗ - 02CERN Archives, original Web proposal, collection CERN-ARCH-WWW-4-010
Archival finding aid
Open source record ↗ - 03Ada Lovelace, “Notes by the Translator,” 1843 (transcription hosted by York University)
Primary text (transcription)
Open source record ↗ - 04Tim Berners-Lee, “A Little History of the World Wide Web,” W3C
Participant historical account
Open source record ↗
Edition 1.0.0
8 October 2026. Initial collection overview, research questions and bibliography published. No original interviews, newly acquired artifacts, or independent experiments are claimed. Substantive future changes will be explained here.
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