✨ An ode to the old Internet, a guide to digital archiving, a celebration of retro tech. ✨

🌊 whoami

🐈‍⬛ My name is Brie and I have been interested in exploring the Web for as long as I can remember. This site is an exploration of web archiving, the old Internet, open-source software, retro tech and self-hosting.

🔖✨ Personal Favorite Tools and Articles ✨🔖

🛠️ Tools

• archivebox -- Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
  • ArchiveBox's list of alternative web archiving projects is a great place to start, too.
• See the Archive Resources section of Website OSINT.

💾 Preserving the Web

• Archives Unleashed
• Awesome Web Archiving
• commoncrawl.org - Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.
• International Internet Preservation Consortium
  • IIPC on Web Archiving
• Internet Archive
• IT History Society
• CyberCemetery - The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report).

✨ Exploring the Old Internet Today

• The OldNet is an attempt to restore vintage web browsing on vintage computers. It uses the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine API and a proxy that strips out any incompatible javascript and stitches together as many links as it can.
• textfiles.com -

🗑️ About link rot

• Save the Internet with rev="canonical"
• Sourcegraph went dark
• Cool URIs don't change

🪦 Tech from the Past

• Killed by * - A graveyard for discontinued products from Apple, Google and Microsoft.
  • See the source.
• Killed by Google
• endoflife.date - A super useful site for tracking the "end-of-life" (EOL) and end of support dates for all kinds of programming languages, software, DMBs, operating systems, standards and cloud services. I highly recommend endolife.date and have found it useful for planning for many years.