Kudos to Internet Archive: Its 30th anniversary!

Celebrating Thirty Years of Internet Archive Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is celebrating its 30th anniversary! This milestone comes alongside many pivotal websites & organizations founded in 1996. To commemorate this occasion, we’ve spent the month opening the internet’s yearbook to celebrate the sites, services & scrappy experiments that helped shape the web as we … Read more

A video: “Can the Internet Archive save our digital history?”

I think it can, to some degree. Here’s a summary of the video “The Internet Archive: Preserving the Web’s History” with timestamped highlights: Introduction to the Internet Archive [00:04]: The video introduces the Internet Archive as a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, which functions as a digital library storing countless real-time snapshots of the … Read more

This semester’s issue on my “Issues in Cyberculture Studies (MED 512)” course: “Web history and digital archiving”

This semester I have mobilized my classes and academic environment to create a database for Turkey’s internet history. There will be a series of works attached to this project (including a wiki based database) but in the mean time in one of my graduate level courses at Istanbul Bilgi University, Communication School, I have decided to take a … Read more