Аннотация:With the World Wide Web now in its second decade of existence, and with the euphoria of the dot-com era now well behind us, it is a good time to reflect on what historians have been able to do in this still immature medium and how in the next decade of its existence we can better make use of it. Generally a conservative bunch in terms of the adoption of new technology (if not in political inclination), historians have, mostly for better but surely on occasion for worse, incorporated the medium into their work over the past ten years. For the most part using the web—it seems appropriate in our post-bubble sobriety to drop the grandiose alliterative phrase as well as the capitalization—has meant the posting of materials for courses, exhibitions, independent work and collaborations, as well as the communication of news and views from all corners of the discipline. Websites have flourished on almost every conceivable historical topic, created by historians from within and beyond the academy. To be sure, this represents a tremendous step forward. As many have noted, the marginal cost of reaching another person with these electronic
