[Nettime-bold] Our Digital Cultural Heritage (sigh)

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

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a date, and then begin surfing on an archived
 version 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.
 >

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