📚 Web Archives

Internet preservation, Digital archaeology, Lost websites, Historical browsing

The Data Dump Dilemma: Why Public Digital Platforms Risk Failing the People They Serve
internetsociety.org·10h
🌐Vernacular Internet
WWII Japanese American Concentration Camps in Historical Fiction
bookriot.com·2w
📖Food Storytelling
The War on Data, 2025 edition
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu·1w
🌱Regenerative Journalism
Bob Stein and Voyager (2021)
filfre.net·2d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🌱Digital Gardens
The Multimedia Renaissance
giannirosato.com·3w·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News
🌿Regenerative Media
original ↗
gyford.com·1w
🌱Digital Gardens
what i like about social media
blog.avas.space·1w
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
Hacker and Physicist – A Tale of "Common Sense"
supasaf.com·2w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
We’re Walling Off The Open Internet To Stop AI—And It May End Up Breaking Everything Else
techdirt.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🕸️Digital Folklore
The beauty of a text only webpage
albanbrooke.com·3w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
Storing data in images
johndcook.com·1w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
You do not need "analytics" for your blog
thisdaysportion.com·1w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
Faster Index I/O with NVMe SSDs
marginalia.nu·3w·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News
🔎Metasearch Engines
The story of how RSS beat Microsoft
buttondown.com·5d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📰RSS Feed Discovery
Google is killing the open web
wok.oblomov.eu·3w·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/webdev
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note
wiki.archiveteam.org·3w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🎌Non-Western Web Culture
<p>🔗 <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45135302#45135852">HN Comment by IanCal</a> in a discussion about RDF (emphasis added):</p>
lmika.org·3d
🗂️Web Directories
Agents need a new retrieval engine
hornet.dev·1w·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔎Metasearch Engines
Nature Reviews Biodiversity: Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation
rbfirehose.com·4d
🌱Grassroots Science
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search
simonw.substack.com·3d·
Discuss: Substack
🌱Digital Gardens