Memória Virtual

Preserving the early blogosphere

30 Janeiro, 2013 at 10:06 pm Deixe um comentário

Right now the archive of the early blogosphere is in an unknown state. There were sites at Blogger, Movable Type, we hosted some at EditThisPage.com, and weblogs.com. I would like to see all of it safe and ready for future readers and researchers. Not as museum exhibits (this is what an ancient blog looked like) but as literature that’s available to anyone at any time. There probably were some great writers back then, and there certainly is history that we have already lost that can be resurrected. But every day that gets harder. We should do something about this.

I am mentioning this now because it’s a long-term objective. I hope to be around for a while to work on this with others, hopefully younger people, who have a longer horizon than I do. I’m not looking for anything like a quick solution, because this is a problem that took many years to create. But I want to start making things better, one step at a time. I will go to conferences, if necessary — but only conferences that are about preserving the early blogopshere. I am in favor of preserving everything, but one person can’t take on everything.

(Dave Winer, Scripting News – o mais antigo blogue em actividade, desde 1 de Abril de 1997)

A propósito desta temática, recupero alguns artigos que já aqui tive oportunidade de publicar, há vários anos:

• “Arquivo da Internet” (Julho de 2003)
• A memória da Internet (Junho de 2008)
• A Internet é um buraco negro que devora a História? (Março de 2009)
• “Wayback Machine” – Arquivo da Internet (Março de 2007)

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