In celebration of Smokey Bear's birthday, here's a look at how his official site has evolved over 29 years. The message? Still the same: "Only YOU."

Explore Smokey's online history with the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/19961229073946/https://smokeybear.com/

Webrings are still around, and @sarajw tipped me off to this large, essentially comprehensive list of them, here: https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm. This site lists over 400 webrings that are linked to over 16,000 websites total. Any kind of interest you may have, you'll probably be able to find a webring for it here.

The same site also has a great history of webrings, what they are, and how they started, here: https://brisray.com/web/webring-history.htm

As the Wayback Machine approaches 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we want your help picking memorable ones to highlight.

Reply with your favorite pages to nominate them for the spotlight.

JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress

Our recap of „The datafied Web“ – RESAW Conference at Siegen University (4-6 June 2025)

https://u-si.de/csXM5
#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

On to #RESAW2025 day 2!
We begin with Jonathan Gray’s KEYNOTE “Public data cultures”, which explores how data is made public on the Internet amidst the rise of social media, platforms and AI.

09:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114
Chair: Tatjana Seitz
#watch RESAW 2025:
University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
https://datafiedweb.net

The first #RESAW25 day concludes with Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s Keynote “Vanishing points: technographies of data loss”.
18:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114

Following that, there’s a dinner reception in the Unteres Schloss Foyer (US-C 150) at 19:30 you are welcome to attend!

watch RESAW 2025:
University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 has officially begun! Following some welcoming remarks by Niels Brügger and Carolin Gerlitz, we will hold an opening roundtable on the Datafied Web.

09:00 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room
Speakers: Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, Sebastian Gießmann, Thomas Haigh and Anne Helmond

watch RESAW 2025:
University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW turns 10!
Since 2015, the Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials has been advancing web archive research, digital memory & infrastructure studies.
Join the celebration at #RESAW2025:
June 5–6 | University of Siegen
https://datafiedweb.net

Only one week to go until #RESAW2025!

Join us June 5–6 in Siegen for two days of talks on the datafied web, digital memory & web archives.
Keynotes by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup & Jonathan Gray

70+ talks on platforms, publics & disappearing data
Celebrating 10 years of RESAW!
University of Siegen
https://datafiedweb.net

Keynote @ #RESAW2025: Jonathan Gray
“Public Data Cultures: Participation, Metrics & Memory”
How is data made public in platformised, AI-driven webs?
From open data histories to missing datasets & critical practices, this talk reimagines data as culture & participation.
June 6 | Uni Siegen
Conference website: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/

Save the date: RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web
June 4–6, 2025
Universität Siegen, Germany

Join us for the 6th RESAW Conference, where over 70 researchers from 11 countries will explore the historical roots and contemporary dynamics of our datafied digital world. Dive into the latest research on web archiving and digital heritage!

Program & registration: https://datafiedweb.net/

Today, I visited the exhibition Choose Your Filter! – Browser Art since the Beginnings of the World Wide Web at the ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe.

An excellent exhibition, radical enough in its presentation to capture the spirit of the time in which these works were created. I was happy to see and browse the works of many friends after a long time, works I still remember very well.

photos: https://instagram.com/p/DH_8EMVMXm3

video: https://tiktok.com/@iintima/video/7489226053857250582

Nostalgia Nerd delivers a great exploration of web search #history, inc. the battle of the #search engines in the late 1990s. A lovely precis of the era and all its quircks. Both nostalgic and nerdy in equal measure, so does what is says on the tin!

"I look at the glory days of search, when AltaVista, Lycos, Excite!, Ask Jeeves, DogPile, InfoSeek and MSN were just some of the choices available. Such exciting times."

'Before Google'
https://youtu.be/812YkCrmksk?si=zipqGpIk8wtiz2BV #WebHistory #WebSearch

ICQ website in 2001 --> #retro #nostalgia #icq #website #2001 #history #webhistory

just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA

thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity.

if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months

this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards

3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.

https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich