There is a project to archive older sites (besides the Internet Archive Wayback machine itself) called Webrecorder. I'll look into this.
Thursday, August 01, 2019
"The Early Internet Is Breaking": Old amateur digital content from the early web melts away (and now there is censorship)
Quartz presents “The Early Internet Is Breaking: Here’s How
the World Wide Web from the Early 90s Will Be Saved” directed by Meghan McDonogh
and Marie LaCerte.
Two former “Netizens” Dragan and Olia recall how it was in
the clownish days, of Hometown AOL (which opened pretty much in 1996 after
Congress passed Section 230), augmenting to corporate content of AOL and
Prodigy; soon there were many small personal web pages, and I supported my own
first “Do Ask Do Tell” book with a site called “hppub” (acronym for High
Productivity Publishing) hosted by a coworker’s company then called “Virtualnetspace”
itself residing on a Rackspace in suburban Maryland called “Announce”. I had it hosted this way for four years and it
was surprisingly stable.
The big platform was Geocities, with over 38 million
pages; one of these belonged to the Paul
Rosenfels Community or the Ninth Street Center.
The film notes that many old sites are lost as owners simply
don’t renew domain names. They also note
the demise of Myspace (a target of Dr. Phil) as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
took over.
They barely mention the censorship problem, which has erupted
as a (“regressive Left”) backlash against the Trump administration and
particularly the fear of the stochastic threat of the alt-right, as illustrated
by Charlottesville, which has even led conventional hosting companies to cancel
accounts of a few of their extreme customers, setting a dangerous precedent.
There is a project to archive older sites (besides the Internet Archive Wayback machine itself) called Webrecorder. I'll look into this.
There is a project to archive older sites (besides the Internet Archive Wayback machine itself) called Webrecorder. I'll look into this.
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