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🏈🏆 The champions change. So do their websites.

From early HTML to modern redesigns, the @WaybackMachine preserves the digital playbook of #NFL champions, decades of archived team sites, including the Seattle Seahawks. 🏟️

Run the archive ➡️ https://web.archive.org

#WaybackMachine #webpreservation #Football @internetarchive #Seahawks #Superbowl

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Now" and "SEAHAWKS.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Seattle Seahawks website from October 31, 2001, alongside one from February 9, 2026.

i love that bruce damer has kept his homepage for the Avatars! virtual worlds book online for 30 uninterrupted years.

https://damer.com/avatars/index.html

#vrml #webHistory #webPreservation #worldWideWeb

The cover of Bruce Damer's Avatars!: Exploring and building virtual worlds on the internet.

It shows several low-polygon models of people's faces in some kind of space station looking out into the stars.

Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure

https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting

#HackerNews #InternetArchive #Infrastructure #FightAgainstForgetting #WebPreservation #DigitalLibrary

Help Aunt Teefa raise $1K for the Internet Archive!

In a time where preserving the history of our times is so important, the Wayback Machine has been instrumental in fighting fascism.

https://donate.archive.org/team/780785

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #ArchiveHistory #WebHistory #InternetHistory #SaveTheWeb #DigitalMemory #OnlineHistory #WebPreservation #ArchivingTheWeb

⏳️ IT'S NOT TOO LATE to join The Web We’ve Built, happening today, Internet Archive Day, as designated by the city of San Francisco! 🌐

Celebrate 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine with the @internetarchive from anywhere in the world. Don’t miss stories, music & digital history live!

📅 Tonight, Oct 22
🕖️–🕗️ 7–8 PM PT / 10–11 PM ET
🎟️ https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/

#Wayback1T #WebPreservation

Text "happy internet archive day! 22nd October 2025" atop a gradient blue background with the limb of the Earth dominating the lower part of the image.

Check out Aunt Teefa's team fundraising page for the Internet Archive! Help her raise $1,000 for the Internet Archive.

In a time where preserving the history of our times is so important, the Wayback Machine has been instrumental in fighting fascism.

https://donate.archive.org/team/780785

#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #ArchiveHistory #WebHistory #InternetHistory #SaveTheWeb #DigitalMemory #OnlineHistory #WebPreservation #ArchivingTheWeb

Internet Archive – Celebrating 1T Web Pages Archived

https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

#HackerNews #InternetArchive #Celebrating1TWebPages #Archived #WebPreservation #DigitalHistory #OnlineArchive

Spent half an hour to fix my old WordPress blog that had a script error out of nowhere. (Probably my hoster changing something about the PHP version.

The last time I wrote something there was over two years ago.

Maybe I should take the time and export everything to make it a static website. No need for it to run with PHP in the background. I probably won't ever write there again. (It's an old german blog)

But links should never die so it's probably the best to preserve everything in the simplest way possible.

#Coding #WebDev #WordPress #WebPreservation

⚡️Linkwarden: The Self-Hosted Bookmark Manager That Solved a Problem I Didn’t Know I Had

Thank you, Linux Unplugged and Jupiter Broadcasting @ironicbadger, for introducing me to Linkwarden—a FOSS gem that will change how I save, share, and preserve the web.

Like many of you, I’ve been using browser bookmarks for years. I’d save articles, tutorials, and interesting links, only to find them gone when I finally got around to reading them. Link rot is real, and it’s frustrating. But until I heard about Linkwarden https://linkwarden.app/ on Linux Unplugged https://jupiterbroadcasting.com/, I didn’t realize how much I needed a better solution.

I used to think, “Browser bookmarks are fine,” and honestly, backing them up manually from time to time isn’t a real trouble—just a slight inconvenience. My problem is that I experience massive link rot when looking into two-year-old links, often with interesting subjects on small sites—they are often just gone when I want to recall them. The problem is that saving the link isn’t saving any of the information.

But Linkwarden @linkwarden isn’t just another bookmark manager—it’s a preservation powerhouse, a collaborative hub, and a self-hosted dream. And thanks to the folks at Jupiter Broadcasting, I now understand why it’s a game-changer.

I haven’t started hosting it yet, but I definitely will, and I hope some of you out there will find it useful too.
Thanks to @daniel31x13 for making a awesome tool :heart_cyber: ⚡️.
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• Linkwarden github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden — Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
• Announcing Linkwarden 2.11 blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.11
• Linkwarden Browser Extension github.com/linkwarden/browser-extension

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @selfhosting @selfhosted@lemmy.world @selfhost #OpenSourceSoftware #TechForGood #Linkwarden #SelfHosted #FOSS #OpenSource #WebPreservation #Fediverse #LinuxUnplugged #SaveTheWeb #NoMore404 #TechCommunity #DigitalArchiving #LinkRot #PrivacyFirst #BookmarkManager #Bookmark

The Forever Website – Why would you need it?
https://hertfordshirewebdesign.com/the-forever-website-why-would-you-need-it/
Protecting Your Digital Legacy: The Hidden Risks of Data Ownership and Blockchain Solutions

#DigitalLegacy #BlockchainStorage #DataPreservation #ImmutableWeb #DecentralisedStorage #PermanentWebsite #WebArchiving #DigitalPermanence #ProtectYourData #DigitalOwnership #SecureWebBackup #DataIntegrity #OnlineLegacy #WebPreservation #CryptoSecurity #DigitalAfterlife #FutureProofWeb #LongTermStorage #BlockchainSolutions

Hertfordshire Web Design: The Forever Website – Why would you need it?

Tomorrow, May 28, in Vancouver BC: "Panel Discussion: In Honour of Canadian Web Preservation" https://internetarchivecanada.org/2025/05/26/panel-discussion-in-honour-of-canadian-web-preservation/ #digipres #webpreservation @internetarchivecanada

back in the early 90s, there were many, many different options for running a bbs on IBM/DOS compatibles. many were descendants of source code that had been written, and re-written, and modded by various authors. arguably, the most beautiful of all of them (in terms of built-in ansi menuing) was iNiQUiTY by mike fricker. iniq was a rewrite of Telegard, which itself was a rewrite of WWIV's source code.

in the late 90s, the web was already going full tilt and i started to feel a pang of nostalgia for ansi and dial-up. i found out that mike released the software into the public domain, and iniquity had a new website, and new owners were rekindling development. it died after that, and the website and all knowledge of the site disappeared into obscurity

tonight, after trying to remember an url for 20 years (because I misremembered it), i finally found the original url for iniquity's website. i really miss this era - it was trying to reconcile ansi, ascii and web graphics in a single design:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030322235549/http://iniquitybbs.com/

mike went on to an incredibly successful career in game development, and is now the technical director at epic games

#bbs #webPreservation

A screenshot of the Iniquitybbs.com site, circa 1998. It shows the splash page which reads 'my god, it's full of stars'. The main page shows a letter from the original author of the software, Mike Fricker.

Mike writes,

Hey man.
I've been trying to keep up with Iniquity related stuff for the last few years,
but I don't have the free time that I used to have. Anyhow, I took some time today and downloaded your team's Iniquity version 2, and I've gotta say that I'm very impressed with your work. As soon as I saw the WFC I got tingles from the memories of my BBS scene days.
Also, it's pretty damn cool of you to leave credit to me for the work I did up until a26. Removing the original author's name and replacing it with their's would have been one of the first things that certain people would have done. That was really my only
fear of having the code PD. It made me proud to look at a pumped up version of something that I started years and years ago.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for keeping the interest flowing in Iniquity and the BBS scene in general. For what it's worth, you've got my full support.
Great work iDT!

🟡🔵 The Confiscation of Digital Memory
by Kaloyan Kolev IG @kaloyanez
at Arena @are.na
#KaloyanKolev #WebPreservation #Vbox7 #Bulgaria #video #Internet #AreDotna

https://www.are.na/editorial/the-confiscation-of-digital-memory

Small text in blue and yellow: Kaloyan Kolev.
Big text in blue and yellow: The Confiscation of Digital Memory.
Background image: illustration Death saw a dustman ringing his bell by Hull, Edward, fl. 1820-34, artist.
Skeleton sticking a sword in the body of a man ith a golden bell on the hand, from whom the Death is stealing it.

back in the early and mid-90s, getting on the net meant you were a university student, or had corporate access through a big company. getting online wasn't easy.

worse, even if you had a dialup number and login, there was no such thing as a tcp/ip stack built-in to Windows 3.1.

even if you *did* have a winsock stack, you'd still need a file downloading protocol, gopher client, world wide web client, ftp client, email client. just getting your machine off the ground was nearly impossible unless you could grab these from a local BBS

to make things simpler, universities began offering dial-up internet software packages to their students and staff.

in 1994, my mom was an undergrad student at the University of Alberta. our family had just bought an IBM PS/1 with a 2400 baud modem, and i was abusing the hell out of our single phone line at night visiting local BBSes.

she somehow found out that the university was selling internet dial-up software for $10 to students, and brought home the diskette pack with her. along with a USR Sportster 14.4k modem, she gave me the install diskettes as a valentine's day gift.

it had a slick setup program that enabled SLIP using Trumpet Winsock, and provided a local (free!) dial-up number for access.

after 25 years, i finally tracked down a few versions of those diskettes. i've imaged them and uploaded them all to IA.

the first version of the dial-up package in 1994 was called WinSLIP. it had no PPP support yet, but contained some really cool shareware internet utilities like HGopher and NCSA Mosaic. this would have been the earliest programs offered for Windows 3.1

WinSLIP/MSKermit 1994/95:
https://archive.org/details/ua_winslip

The second version of the software was renamed to NetSurf. It stripped out most of the obscure shareware sadly, and replaced them with Netscape 2 and Eudora Light. The new version of Trumpet Winsock offered PPP which was a huge improvement:

NetSurf 1996/97:
https://archive.org/details/ua_netsurf_96

Now well into the Windows 95 era, the 1997/98 software was shipped on a CD with a hilarious "multimedia" installer/help program designed in Macromedia Director:

NetSurf 1997/98:
https://archive.org/details/netsurf-97-starter-kit

I hope this brings back some memories for fellow U of A alumni :)

#softwarePreservation #webPreservation #win31 #worldWideWeb #yeg #bbs #alberta