Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.

That includes things like the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” 🙀📬 a very real web oddity now preserved only on the #WaybackMachine.

Internet history is stranger—and more fragile—than it looks.

Read more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/depths-of-wikipedia-creator-annie-rauwerda-on-fragile-internet-citations/

@annierau @internetarchive #Wikipedia

@internetarchive @annierau The website SpeedRacer.com ran a free email server for years that you accessed via their website. Eventually the site got sold and the new owners shut down the email server (they gave a lot of notice so people could move off of it before it was gone). I still miss having that as a back-up email address.