I love this timeline of internet firsts. Best of all:
You may touch the artifacts
The websites on display work—even the ones that used Flash!
A profile of Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive:
Tech’s walled gardens might make it harder to get a perfect picture, but the small team of librarians, digital archivists and software engineers at the Internet Archive plan to keep bringing the world the Wayback Machine, the Open Library, the Software Archive, etc., until the end of time. Literally.
A three-part series on digital preservation:
There’s something very endearing about this docudrama retelling of the story of the web.
A short video featuring Jason Scott and Brewster Kahle. The accompanying text has a shout-out to the line-mode browser hack event at CERN.
A timeline of technology.
Long-term thinking for digital storage.
219,000 hours of wonder.
When is an explanation not an explanation?
The difference between being on the web and being archived.
Digital destruction courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.