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Written by Sarven Capadisli on 2025-01-08 at 19:17

A portion of the web prior to 1996 ( @internetarchive ) might still exist on some dusty media -hard drives, floppy disks.. Are there known archives that captured the web from that time? Does the IA have reliable snapshots? Perhaps CERN... or TimBL's "do not power it down" machine have some copies of stuff? I find it fascinating that some parts of our history may still be out there or lost to time..

[#]archives #history

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Descendants

Written by Andy Jackson on 2025-01-08 at 19:27

@csarven @internetarchive I recovered the British Library website from 1995 but it's offline because the UK Web Archive is still down. And there's https://searchworks.stanford.edu/catalog?f=[collection][]=wk956yb8565

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Written by Dan Connolly on 2025-01-09 at 08:04

@csarven @internetarchive I shared one from 1894: https://archive.org/details/olias_202112

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Written by Sarven Capadisli on 2025-01-13 at 21:58

@dckc @internetarchive Wow, that was a great idea!

From the OLIAS CD:

the best way to find information since the card catalog

<3 captures how I felt, but didn't fully grasp until much later, when I started using web with Lynx in 94.

Enjoyable as it is, Web-surfing is not the best way to find information.

:)

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