Re: [Nettime-bold] Very Funny, I think not

[Josephine Bosma <jesis@xs4all.nl>]

Lachlan,

There was no nettime bold in May and June 1998. 


best



J
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Lachlan Brown wrote:
> 
> NOT funny.
> 
> Can the Nettimer-bolder who took the May and June 1998
> copies of Difference Engine from the 'Internet Archive'
> please put it back this instant!!!
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/19980709120537/http://scorpio.gold.ac.uk/difference/engine.html
> 
> You know who you are...
> 
> Lachlan
> 
> >Few things surprise me anymore about Internet
> but 'The Internet Archive' is a bliss. Quite a good sample
> of the WWW from mid 1996...
> 
> I am amazed to see that my 'difference engine'
>  which was censored on 28 May 1998 by the
> closure of my staff and research
> log-in and erased simultaneously
> at York University in Toronto and at Goldsmiths College in
> September 1998 (http://www.gold.ac.uk/difference/engine.html)
> is here (or much of it anyway) at the Internet Archive:
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/19980709120537/http://scorpio.gold.ac.uk/difference/engine.html
> 
> British Cultural Studies erased a folder named /difference/ in a frenzied witch-hunt
> and called it an administrative error.
> 
> Come and see what those utter bastards at
> Goldsmiths College destroyed. Barbarians.
> 
> Hmmm....
> 
> My God its like excavating through the
> ash of Pompeii to find some former civilisation. The 'digital age'.
> 
> Lachlan Brown
> http://third.net
> 
> Wayback Machine Overview
> 
> The Wayback Machine, a service from the
> Internet
> Archive and Alexa Internet, allows people to
>  access
> and use archived versions of stored websites.
>  Visitors
> to the Wayback Machine can type in an URL,
> select
> a date, and then begin surfing on an archived
>  version
> of the web. The Wayback Machine is built so
> 
> that it
> can be used and referenced by anybody and
> 
> everybody.
> The original idea for the Wayback Machine
> 
> began in
> 1996, when the Internet Archive first began
> archiving
> the web. Now, five years later, with over 100
> terabytes
> and a dozen web crawls completed, the Internet
>  Archive
> has made the Wayback Machine available to the
> public.
> The Wayback Machine, which currently contains
> over 100
> terabytes of data and is growing at a rate of
>  12 terabytes
> per month, is the largest known database in
> the world,
> containing multiple copies of the entire
> publicly available
> web. This eclipses the amount of data
> contained in the
> world's largest libraries, including the
> Library of Congress
> 
> [remember how meaningful the web was in 1997?  go have your hopes crushed
> again.  ~d]
> 
> THE WAYBACK MACHINE -- http://web.archive.org
> 
> <sj@c3.hu> wrote:
>  > INTERNET ARCHIVE WAYBACK MACHINE ENABLES
>  > USERS TO ACCESS ARCHIVED VERSIONS OF WEB SITES
>  > DATING FROM 1996
>  >
>  > SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The Internet Archive, a comprehensive
>  > library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form,
>  > has launched the WAYBACK MACHINE, a free service allowing
>  > people to access and use archived versions of past web pages.
>  > The site enables searching and viewing of an enormous
>  > collection of web sites, dating back to 1996 and comprising
>  > over 10 billion web pages.
>  > /.../
>  >
>  > For artists who have changed and expanded the information on
>  > their web sites over the years, the site allows an interesting look
>  > at a process which they themselves may not have documented.
>  >
> 
> --
> 
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