The Victorian Web... originated in hypermedia environments (Intermedia, and Storyspace) that existed long before the World Wide Web. One of the oldest academic and scholarly websites, it entered the Internet in 1994... [I]n contrast [to Project Gutenberg and other archives], [it] presents its images and documents, including entire books, as nodes in a network of complex connections. In other words, it emphasizes the link rather than the search tool.
In the Victorian Web we encounter books, paintings, political events, and eminent and not-so-eminent Victorians in multiple contexts, which we can examine when and if we wish to do so.
The website is currently self-funded. Thanks to the famous physicist, Gerald Guralnik, one of the discoverers of the Higgs Boson, it was first housed at Brown University, on externally funded computers in his High Energy Physics Group. Subsequently, for a few years in the 1990s, Brown's Scholarly Technology Group, under the guidance of Alan Renear, housed the site. However, it has never received direct financial support from Brown University. In the later 1990s, Landow and Noah Landow, President of Macktez Corp, funded servers that host the site, and they have again done so since 2008. From 2000 the University Scholars Program at the National University of Singapore, where Landow served as the founding Dean, funded a main server, a mirror site, support staff, and four post-doctoral or senior researchers. Then in 2020 victorianweb.org finally became a 501(3)c non-profit corporation. The site appears to have been last linked on metafilter in 2025 and routinely between 2004 through 2018. It has never been posted on its own terms, and that seems like a mistake.



