Marc Weber

As Founding Curator of the Internet History Program, Marc is the focal point for museum activities related to the history of networking, the Internet, and the Web. These include building out the Museum's collection in these areas, including oral histories, and developing content for the Networking and Mobile sections of the Museum's upcoming signature exhibit "Computing: The First 2000 Years". Marc Weber pioneered Web history as a topic starting in early 1995. His initial investigations as a journalist became the Web History Project, which assembled the first archive of early Web materials and interviewed over 80 key figures with crucial help from the Web's main inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee and his early colleagues.

Marc and co-founder Kevin Hughes brought together most central pioneers at the 1997 international Web conference with the first Web History events ever, plus a major temporary exhibit. Other large events co-organized by Marc include a follow up program at the 2007 international Web conference, and a panel on the 30th anniversary of when the ARPANET became the Internet. In 2006 he co-founded the Web History Center whose 12 members include Stanford, the Internet Archive, SRI, and SLAC.

In 2008 Marc began consulting on CHM's upcoming timeline exhibit, and late that year started the Internet History Program as Founding Curator.

Marc has been interviewed on Web history topics by major media from CBS to APR's "Marketplace", presented at international conferences, consulted for patent cases and served as an advisor to documentaries from the History and Discovery channels.

Marc is an award-winning technology writer and journalist. He has consulted on technology topics since 1987, in Silicon Valley and near Geneva, Switzerland, and has been author or editor of four how-to guides for computer consultants. In 1995 he helped pioneer "Webcasting" as Executive Editor of an experimental magazine with media partners including The Economist Group and Le Monde. He holds bachelors degrees in Neurobiology and in Creative Writing (with Honors) from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.