My first months in cyberspace (Phil Gyford’s website)
This is a wonderfully evocative description of what it was like to go online 30 years ago.
Internet Artifacts
I love this timeline of internet firsts. Best of all:
You may touch the artifacts
The websites on display work—even the ones that used Flash!
Related links
The Internet Archive on the future of the web - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
A profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:
Tech’s walled gardens might make it harder to get a perfect picture, but the small team of librarians, digital archivists and software engineers at the Internet Archive plan to keep bringing the world the Wayback Machine, the Open Library, the Software Archive, etc., until the end of time. Literally.
The “File Not Found” series on Science Friday
A three-part series on digital preservation:
Tim Berners-Lee ~ The World Wide Web - YouTube
There’s something very endearing about this docudrama retelling of the story of the web.
Meet the Geniuses on a Quixotic Quest to Archive the Entire Internet | TIME.com
A short video featuring Jason Scott and Brewster Kahle. The accompanying text has a shout-out to the line-mode browser hack event at CERN.
Related posts
Cerf rocks
Long-term thinking for digital storage.
9,125 days later
219,000 hours of wonder.
Voice of the Beeb hive
When is an explanation not an explanation?
Linkrotting
The difference between being on the web and being archived.
The tragedy of the commons
Digital destruction courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.