A Short History of Web Archiving
Posted by Mark Middleton on Tue, Mar 08, 2011
I've been meaning to write a short history of web archiving for ages and I never got around to it. Fortunately, Ariel Bleicher did get around to it, with this great article in IEEE Spectrum:
A Memory of Webs Past.
Definitely worth a read. Now a little into the future...
I'm presenting "Commercial Web Archives" at the next IIPC meeting at The Hague on 09 May 2011, with a demonstration of what may be the next stage in the development of web archiving - including demo's of archived social media, form-based content (I don't mean simply logging in, I mean multi-page, multi-variable, complex forms), interactive Ajax pages, streaming media, etc. It's open to the public, so come along.