30 years ago, the National Library of Norway began archiving Internet content - starting with Usenet news from the no domain. Stored to CDs and properly catalogued.

#webarchivingwednesday
#webarchiving #digitalpreservation
#culturalheritage
@netpreserve.bsky.social #iipcwac25
#RanaBlad

Thanks to Håvard Lundberg and Ida Haugen-Poljac for a thought-provoking and inspiring closing keynote on how Analysis&Numbers are Quantifying the Complexity of Web Data, providing actionable insights into hate speech, election interference, etc
#iipcwac25 #webarchiving
@netpreserve.bsky.social

Thanks to Javier de la Rosa for a kicking off the #iipcwac25 with his excellent Opening keynote on "Libraries, Copyright and Language Models".

🎉 3 days until the adventure of the year starts: IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2025 in Oslo. Warming up with some milestones in Norwegian Internet and Web Archiving History.
#iipcwac25 #webarchiving #digitalpreservation
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In 19 days, we'll meet in Oslo for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference! Warming up with this 2001 version of the Nordic Web Archive homepage.

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(Thanks to @webrecorder.net for great emulation tools and @archive.org for providing access to the past)

One of many women contributing to web development is Nicola Pellow. In 1990-91, while still being an undergraduate math student, she wrote the Line Mode Browser, making it possible to browse html documents in a terminal interface.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Pellow
#womenhistory #webhistory #CERN

On our way to Tartu, Estonia, to present the #warc2corpus pipeline! Look forward to discuss how web archive collections can be turned into corpus data for distant reading.
#DHNB2025 #DigitalHumanities
#OpenScience #WebArchiving
#ComputationalSocialSciences
@dhnb.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social

Researchers & Professionals in Libraries, Archives & Museums: Join leading experts at IIPC Web Archiving Conference, 9-10 Apr. How do we preserve digital-born culture? How can it be studied? How is it supporting ethical AI? Register today to secure your seat!
netpreserve.org/ga2025/
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We recently published more than 1.5 million news texts as data for `distant reading` and analysis. The pilot study resulted in this amazing article:
doi.org/10.5334/johd...

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