Tag: Archive

This article goes over “HTML First is a set of principles that aims to make building web software easier, faster, more inclusive, and more maintainable”.

Arne describes what he does to his old projects. Quite enjoyed reading this article as I mostly agree: keep them online. Lots of my old projects don’t have their website anymore, but I keep them around in some repository. I hope for the future I will build some sort of digital museum.

Very interesting post on how to make long lasting web pages. The 7 most important points are:

1. Return to vanilla HTML/CSS
2. Don’t minimize HTML
3. Prefer one long page over several
4. Do not hotlink
5. Stick with native fonts
6. Compress, compress, compress (images)!
7. Eliminate broken URL risk

This is a good post about the experience of putting that massive amount of books, and therefore data, and the challenges that come with it.

Anna’s Archive claims to be “the world’s largest open-source open-data library”. As far as I understand, this shadow library does not, by itself, host any of the content. Instead, it is a massive search engine with the collection of the metadata of all these books. Nevertheless, it seems that the authors are invested in seeding the content too.

A preserved version of a website that has been running since 1986. It is one of the oldest, still-running, websites.

A preserved version of a website with old Internet files, such as zone files, hosts information and domains information.

A very random website with very random things and screenshots from old software.

A preserved website that was nominated Cool Site of the Year in 1997, which explains what is the World Wide Web.