Friday, April 30, 2004
Internet Archive
This project is attempting to provide an archive of the internet by taking snapshots of the web at different times and storing them, allowing you to roll back the years and see what the web was like way back when..... Having found an era of interest, you can navigate it just as you would have done then, so you can see how your site has changed.
But it also means that the internet has altered: whilst it's always been a public medium, there has been an implicit feeling that the author has had some form of control over their web space. Sure, people could link to it (we like that) and people can pinch stuff and use it on their own sites (we like that sometimes, sometimes not, depending on the circumstances) - but if you decided to take down one part of your site, that was it, gone. But no longer - it may still exist, out there on the web, no longer under your control. Does this make you think twice about putting something up there? Should it?
CHI
By the way, CHI was good. Well, in a conferency sort of a way: great to meet colleagues, discuss research ideas, see who was doing what and why, who's moved to where, and get to grips with the state of the art. No paper proceedings made it a pain to decide which sessions to attend and so I made some poor choices, and saw a lot of incremental work, and some that looked distinctly familiar. Some nuggets in the goldpan, however, and worth the trip. Chocolate cake was good, too.
This project is attempting to provide an archive of the internet by taking snapshots of the web at different times and storing them, allowing you to roll back the years and see what the web was like way back when..... Having found an era of interest, you can navigate it just as you would have done then, so you can see how your site has changed.
But it also means that the internet has altered: whilst it's always been a public medium, there has been an implicit feeling that the author has had some form of control over their web space. Sure, people could link to it (we like that) and people can pinch stuff and use it on their own sites (we like that sometimes, sometimes not, depending on the circumstances) - but if you decided to take down one part of your site, that was it, gone. But no longer - it may still exist, out there on the web, no longer under your control. Does this make you think twice about putting something up there? Should it?
CHI
By the way, CHI was good. Well, in a conferency sort of a way: great to meet colleagues, discuss research ideas, see who was doing what and why, who's moved to where, and get to grips with the state of the art. No paper proceedings made it a pain to decide which sessions to attend and so I made some poor choices, and saw a lot of incremental work, and some that looked distinctly familiar. Some nuggets in the goldpan, however, and worth the trip. Chocolate cake was good, too.
(c) 2003-2005 Russell Beale
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