my gods. i accidentally stumbled upon the original url from the show watching a vhs rip of an early episode, and wbm had a snapshot from 1996!

https://web.archive.org/web/19961102161219/http://www.dotto.istar.ca/

this is an extremely obscure piece of canadian history: Dotto's Data Café. it was a computer/internet tech show from the 1990s hosted by Steve Dotto that aired on canadian networks. (i doubt it was rebroadcasted anywhere else, but if it made it to your country, please let me know!)

#canada #digiPres #webPreservation #history

I was the first person to archive a webpage from Internet Archive Europe on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

LoL

#InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #WaybackMachine #archive #archiving #WebArchiving #WebPreservation #inception

geocities banner from 1999 that loaded in a new popup window every single time you clicked on a link on a geocities page. 😬

https://web.archive.org/web/19990829171607/http://www.geocities.com/toto?s=76000011

#worldwideWeb #webPreservation #oldweb

in 1996 the university of alberta let departments manage their own homepages

mwah. 🤌

#smallWeb #1990s #worldwideWeb #webpreservation

a The Sims series lossless soundtrack archival project died incomplete a couple of years ago, but i give them a 10/10 for nailing the Sims (2000) web aesthetic for their project site

site archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230722161357/https://simsmusicarchive.audio/

#sims #retrogaming #smallweb #digiPres #webpreservation #indieweb

🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites.

From early HTML to modern redesigns, the @WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champions, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks. 🏟️

Run the archive ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#WaybackMachine #webpreservation #Football @internetarchive #Seahawks #Superbowl

i love that bruce damer has kept his homepage for the Avatars! virtual worlds book online for 30 uninterrupted years.

https://damer.com/avatars/index.html

#vrml #webHistory #webPreservation #worldWideWeb

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting

#HackerNews #InternetArchive #Infrastructure #FightAgainstForgetting #WebPreservation #DigitalLibrary

Help Aunt Teefa raise $1K for the Internet Archive!

In a time where preserving the history of our times is so important, the Wayback Machine has been instrumental in fighting fascism.

https://donate.archive.org/team/780785

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #ArchiveHistory #WebHistory #InternetHistory #SaveTheWeb #DigitalMemory #OnlineHistory #WebPreservation #ArchivingTheWeb

⏳️ IT'S NOT TOO LATE to join The Web We’ve Built, happening today, Internet Archive Day, as designated by the city of San Francisco! 🌐

Celebrate 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine with the @internetarchive from anywhere in the world. Don’t miss stories, music & digital history live!

📅 Tonight, Oct 22
🕖️–🕗️ 7–8 PM PT / 10–11 PM ET
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #WebPreservation