::fibreculture:: internet archives

[Jill Walker]

What'd be *really* cool is if the Internet Archive also let you do content
searches - imagine an archived Google (or whatever search engine) frozen at
Sept 11 2001, for instance, with all the linked-to sites also archived! As
it is you need to know the URL of the site you want to see the archive of.
Which is extremely impressive but of course much wants more...

Jill

> just as Geert posts a query on an archive of recode, I was waking for
> the day with thoughts on that  quite remarkable site/engine, the
> Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/
> 
> And I was wondering if anyone out there is doing internet archaelogy
> work.  This site is particularly handy for that sort of research.  I
> remember typing in something like "S11" a year or 2 ago, and getting
> the progression of the event as it appeared, for instance, on CNN
> pages.  This sort of feature lends itself to tracking the
> relationship between what Ken Wark calls a "weird media event" and
> the time it takes for discourse to capture and contain that which has
> inititially exceeded any media-discursive logic.
> 
> The url search feature brings up hits for 2001, 2002 for fc site
> developments. Strangely, it registers nothing for 2003  -  a time
> that has seen the site undergo quite significant development.
> Perhaps it takes a while for updates to trickle into the database.
> Or maybe fc is no longer being tracked.  The FAQs link explains how
> it all works.
> 
> Geert - if you enter the recode url: http://systemx.autonomous.org/recode/
> 
> 3 hits come up for 1999, and 2001.  1999 is dead, but 2001 gives some winners.
> 
> If any of you are doing work along these lines, it'd be great to see
> it posted to the list.  Or even submitted to one of the future issues
> of the fc journal (issue 1, btw, is not too far off launching).
> 
> Related to this type of research, I'm also wondering if anyone is
> doing not mailing list analysis, but announcement list analysis.
> This perhaps seems particularly dull, but one great thing about
> announcement archives - and a good reason why they should exist and
> be preserved - is that you're able to quickly establish a set of
> co-ordinates that assist in what Lefebrve and others call synchronic
> historical analysis [suited to any history of the present], as
> distinct from diachronic analysis.  [and on a friendly admin note:
> all announcements of events, cfps, exhibitions, projects etc should
> be posted to the separate fc announcements list - url in footer of
> all fc list postings - and not this list]
> 
> Ned
> 
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