The Role of the Internet in Current Shroud Research
Barrie M. Schwortz · 1999
In the paper I delivered in Turin last year 1 , I discussed the role I believed the Internet could play in the future of Shroud research. I suggested a number of possible applications and sited some examples that were already in place on the Shroud of Turin Website. In the last twelve months, the expansion of the Internet has been explosive, with nearly 70,000 new viewers logging on every day. 2 That totals over 25,000,000 new viewers in just one year! With the increase in viewers has come amazing advances in both hardware and software. Many of the "future applications" I mentioned last year have already become reality. In this paper, I will review the role communications played in earlier Shroud research and site examples of how the Internet and other new technologies have changed the way Shroud studies are being conducted today. Communications and Shroud Research My personal observations of Shroud research began in late 1976, when I became the Official Documenting Photographer f...