Lachlan Brown on Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:58:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Our Digital Cultural Heritage (sigh) |
Few things surprise me anymore about Internet but 'The Internet Archive' is a bliss. Quite a good sample of the WWW from mid 1996... I am amazed to see that my 'difference engine' which was censored on 28 May 1998 by the closure of my staff and research log-in and erased simultaneously at York University in Toronto and at Goldsmiths College in September 1998 (http://www.gold.ac.uk/difference/engine.html) is here (or much of it anyway) at the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/19980709120537/http://scorpio.gold.ac.uk/difference/engine.html British Cultural Studies erased a folder named /difference/ in a frenzied witch-hunt and called it an administrative error. Come and see what those utter bastards at Goldsmiths College destroyed. Barbarians. Hmmm.... My God its like excavating through the ash of Pompeii to find some former civilisation. The 'digital age'. Lachlan Brown http://third.net Wayback Machine Overview The Wayback Machine, a service from the Internet Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to access and use archived versions of stored websites. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can type in an URL, select a date, and then begin surfing on an archived version of the web. The Wayback Machine is built so that it can be used and referenced by anybody and everybody. The original idea for the Wayback Machine began in 1996, when the Internet Archive first began archiving the web. Now, five years later, with over 100 terabytes and a dozen web crawls completed, the Internet Archive has made the Wayback Machine available to the public. The Wayback Machine, which currently contains over 100 terabytes of data and is growing at a rate of 12 terabytes per month, is the largest known database in the world, containing multiple copies of the entire publicly available web. This eclipses the amount of data contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress [remember how meaningful the web was in 1997? go have your hopes crushed again. ~d] THE WAYBACK MACHINE -- http://web.archive.org <sj@c3.hu> wrote: > INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE ENABLES > USERS TO ACCESS ARCHIVED VERSIONS OF WEB SITES > DATING FROM 1996 > > SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Internet Archive, a comprehensive > library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, > has launched the WAYBACK MACHINE, a free service allowing > people to access and use archived versions of past web pages. > The site enables searching and viewing of an enormous > collection of web sites, dating back to 1996 and comprising > over 10 billion web pages. > /.../ > > For artists who have changed and expanded the information on > their web sites over the years, the site allows an interesting look > at a process which they themselves may not have documented. > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold