[SIGCIS-Members] Jill Lepore on the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

[Dave Walden]

This article in the January 26 issue of _The New Yorker_ (starting on 
page 34) is interesting.  I have often thought about how various 
personal but useful websites relating to computing history can exist 
after the creators stop supporting them, e.g.,
    http://tenex.opost.com/
or
    http://walden-family.com/impcode/
As the article points out, the formal archives are not so great for 
saving these personal website, even if the formal arthives had the 
space and effort, as websites created as personal efforts to save 
bits of computing history often aren't so careful about copyright 
issues.  I'm not sure that the Wayback Machine at present is the 
answer as it doesn't seem particularly easy to access and search.
PS, I did note one technical mistake in the article:  Licklider did 
not help found BBN; he *was* key in founding BBN's computing activities.







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