jonathan w. y. gray 🐨May 28
how can we use the internet to study the internet? look forward to co-learning workshop on digital methods for studying internet culture at Seoul National University, 8-9th June 2026 - with Chamee Yang @lbngr Jisu Lee & more! ✨🐰🐨🦔🐢🐬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/28/snu-workshop
#seoul #internetstudies #internetarchive #webarchives #digitalmethods
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨May 27
what is the datafied web? how to study it? and reimagine it? we chat in Internet Histories journal ✨🐰🦔🐨🐢🦉🐿️🦙🦆💬 https://jonathangray.org/2026/05/18/datafied-web
with @nthylstrup Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, @sebgiessmann @annehelmond Ian Milligan & Valérie Schafer.
come for the datafied web - stay for the AI #slop #adtech #deepfakes #bots #leaks #trolls #bubbles #linkrot #fintech #osint #dataloss #softwaredecay #venturecapital #platformlabour #webarchives #diywebsites #algorithms #surveillancecapitalism #poeticcomputation & more 😋
article on “the datafied web” in Internet Histories

An article on “the datafied web” that I co-authored has just been published in the Internet Histories journal.

Jonathan W. Y. Gray
Show thread☑️ CathMay 15

@WvOostveen Misschien helpt het mensen soms over de streep om toch maar een abonnement te nemen? Goede #journalistiek is belangrijk.

Zelf doe ik er vrijwel altijd wel een archief-linkje bij, zodat iedereen het kan lezen en het artikel ook voor het nageslacht bewaard blijft.

Daar is ook een gemakkelijke add-on voor beschikbaar:

https://github.com/dessant/web-archives

#archive #webarchives

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMay 13

National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published. “The National Library of Finland is responsible for the diverse and representative preservation of online material. To make this work more transparent, we produced a document entitled Content selection for the Finnish Web Archive, outlining the principles for content selection in thematic and continuous […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/13/national-library-of-finland-principles-for-finnish-web-archive-content-selection-published/
National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published

National Library of Finland: Principles for Finnish Web Archive content selection published. “The National Library of Finland is responsible for the diverse and representative preservation of…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMay 9

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/09/toms-hardware-internet-archival-sites-struggling-to-preserve-the-internet-because-of-skyrocketing-hard-drive-prices-due-to-the-ai-boom-wayback-machine-and-wikimedia-punished-by-stratosphe/
Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratosphe…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Digital History BerlinMay 4
📯This week in #DigitalHistoryOFK: Jane Winters (University of London) presents “From ‘digital dark age’ to ‘an age of historical abundance’?” on born-digital cultural heritage. Exploring web archives, social media & personal data, the talk reflects on preservation, infrastructures & historical value.
📅6 May 2026, 16–18 CET (Zoom)
ℹ️Info: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/13238
#4memory #WebArchives #DigitalPreservation
@historikerinnen
@histodons
@digitalhumanities
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈Apr 27

Anyone dealing with WAF challenges in their web scrapers?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/APIReference/API_ChallengeAction.html

#WebArchives #digipres #WebArchiving

ChallengeAction - AWS WAFV2

Specifies that AWS WAF should run a Challenge check against the request to verify that the request is coming from a legitimate client session:

Susan BordaApr 23
New blog via SAA from my colleague and me about our process for archiving #warc files from Archive-It #digipres #webarchives https://saaers.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/an-approach-to-backing-up-internet-archive-web-crawls/
​​An Approach to Backing up Internet Archive Web Crawls

By Susan Borda and Scott Witmer  Adapted from the DPC Digital Preservation Workflow Webinar series, March 2026 The University of Michigan Library web archiving initiative began as a pilot prog…

bloggERS!
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈Mar 24

Fascinating interactive visualization of web history by Opera.

https://web-rewind.com/

Thx @matteusbeus for the link!

#InternetHistory #WebArchives #digipres #Enshittification #DH

Web Rewind

An interactive journey through 30 years of the web

Web Rewind
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMar 7

New-to-me, from Library of Congress: Preserving U.S. Indigenous Government Websites: From Directory to Digital Archive. “As a 2025 Junior Fellow, Maggie Jones helped build the United States Indigenous Government Websites Web Archive with the guidance of her mentor, Giselle Aviles. In this interview, they describe how the collection developed from a list of over 500 tribes and what that process […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/07/preserving-u-s-indigenous-government-websites-from-directory-to-digital-archive-library-of-congress/