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Digital Archaeology Show Reveals 'Lost' Web Sites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the find-the-buried-treasure dept.

Stoobalou writes "The world's first ever 'archaeological dig' of the internet is set to begin this week in London's über-trendy Shoreditch. The exhibition, entitled Digital Archaeology, kicks off today to mark the 20th anniversary of the first stirrings of the world wide web. According to its organisers, valuable evidence from the interweb's early days is at risk of being lost forever. Digital Archaeology is an attempt to kick-start a wider attempt to archive the web in Britain's first 'digital archive'."

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  1. Re:Post of the year! by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Informative

    Right, because no one's ever considered doing this before. Especially not in the UK!

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  2. Re:Post of the year! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I don't believe he's referring to the content of the post...

  3. Digiboard predated the Internet Archive's Wayback by Rick+Richardson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Digiboard, Inc. website (http://www.dgii.com) predated the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.  When I started the website, only ~200 sites existed.

  4. Shoreditch is *not* uber-trendy by Tomsk70 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spoken as someone that worked in Whitechapel for ten years, it's somewhere you move away from, not to. Trust me on this, the only people that think it's trendy to live somewhere like that are journalists