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Untangling the Web: a guide to internet research [pdf] (nsa.gov)
25 points by mocy 4789 days ago
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Screenshots of mostly-text web pages, compressed to JPEGs, pasted into a Word document, printed to hardcopy in two-level greyscale, annotated with a rubber stamp (or typewriter?), scanned again at low dpi, converted to PDF (39 MB), and drop-published into an unnavigable /_files/ folder, all towards its goal of teaching internet literacy to others.
Sounds like Web 0.1 to me [1]

[1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/web_0_0x2e_1.aspx

My guess is it was faxed (or poorly photocopied).
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http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf

Wow, ancient web history. I suspect it was already outdated when it was written...
you nearly took a line out of the book. Third paragraph, page five,

"I cannot emphasize strongly enough that this book was already out of date by the time it was published"

This document is 4 months younger than IE 7.