š¦š #OTD 2002 Google revealed the secret of its search ranking tech: pigeons.
April Fools! PigeonRankā¢ claimed queries were sent to a ādata coop,ā where flocks watched flashing results and pecked rubber bars to rank pages in true pecking order.
Revisit this fine feathered foolishness on the Wayback Machine ā¤µļø
https://web.archive.org/web/20020401000000/http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
#WebNostalgia #InternetHistory #WaybackMachine #AprilFools #April1st
I just found out that somebody out there has figured out how to add #piezo + #MIDI capabilities to #KahlerUSA *vibrato* bridges.
Except, I'm not sure they still exist as the website is either blocking my VPN or they went out of business and the domain vanished. I had to use the #WaybackMachine. Just E-mailed them so, we'll see if there is anyone at the other end. Sure hope so!
https://brownsguitarfactory.com/products/acoustic-midi-basses/
Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham @mark, director of the Wayback Machine, explains why these concerns are unfounded and that blocking archives risks harming the public record.
Get the story on Techdirt š
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
I should check to make sure this Turnip executive order has been archived in the Wayback Machine...
"Saved 641 times between February 5, 2025 and March 25, 2026."
*nods* Good job, Internet Archive.
JournalismUK: Follow the changes: Nine ways web archives are used in digital investigations. āIn this piece we draw on the Internet Archiveās News Stories collection to surface practices and use cultures of the Wayback Machine amongst journalists and media organisations. We analysed a dataset of about 8,600 news articles, assembled by the IA via daily Google News keyword searches since 2018. [ā¦]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/follow-the-changes-nine-ways-web-archives-are-used-in-digital-investigations-journalismuk/
JournalismUK: Follow the changes: Nine ways web archives are used in digital investigations. āIn this piece we draw on the Internet Archiveās News Stories collection to surface practices and ā¦
RaĆŗl Feliz & Mai Ishikawa-Suttonās "Hello World Wide Web" offers an interactive timeline tracing the webās origins via the Wayback Machine š°ļø
Created for the Internet Archive x Gray Area Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it shows how archives arenāt just storage, but memory š
More on these netā¤art works ā¤µļø
https://blog.archive.org/internet-archive-x-gray-area-trillionth-webpage-net-art-commissions/
š¬ The Oscars celebrate movie history, but their website has a history too.
Take a trip back to the early web with this vintage capture of oscarsā¤org, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
See how Hollywoodās biggest night's site appeared online 30 years ago ā¤µļø
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229154935/https://www.oscars.org/
Update. While the #ThomsonReuters employee letter is not yet public, #Poynter quotes from it: "The detrimental actions of #ICE, and the #DHSās lack of oversight and direct falsehoods regarding the situation in #Minnesota and other cities, makes us question if our investigative products and services are being used in accordance with our mission and values, as well as in accordance with the law and our nationās constitution.ā
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsrooms-letter-against-ice-dhs/
The same article links to a similar letter from #RELX employees to management about a $22.1 million contract with ICE. RELX is the parent company of #LexisNexis and #Elsevier.
https://www.poynter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/law360-demand-letter.pdf
That letter is public. From the RELX employee letter: "We are deeply concerned that RELX is directly aiding the separation of families, the removal of children from schools and the death of individuals in detention centers."
RELX deleted a page from its FAQ, posted during the Biden administration, saying that its tools would not be used for these purposes. But here's a copy from the #WaybackMachine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230307061658/https://risk.lexisnexis.com/government/our-services-for-homeland-security
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