Ah, the vast enigma of browser user agents, a topic so riveting that it demands the disabling of your basic internet privacy settings just to read it. 🤦‍♂️ Spoiler: It's just web history's version of a fake mustache, but hey, enjoy the thrill of enabling #JavaScript for that! 🙄🔍
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1114254/why-do-all-browsers-user-agents-start-with-mozilla #browseruseragents #internetprivacy #webhistory #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

How JPEG became the Internet's image standard https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history

#ImageCompression #JPEG #DigitalPhotogaphy #WebHistory #photography #history

DEAD INTERNET THEORY https://randomboo.com/blog/dead-internet-theory/ #AIContent, #AlgorithmFatigue, #ContentCreation, #DeadInternetTheory, #DigitalCreativity, #InternetCulture, #InternetDecay, #Nostalgia, #OnlineArt, #WebHistory

🙏How intriguing was #RESAW2025?

We hope you all found it informative and engaging. We would like to thank everyone for sharing their insights and listening to the various talks and discussions regarding The Datafied Web. We hope to see you all again next time!

🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

💡 We conclude #RESAW2025 with our roundtable “RESAW Conferences — the first 10 years, and what’s next?”
⏳16:45 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room (first floor)
📚Chair and moderator: Niels Brügger
🏁This will be followed by some closing remarks.
And with that, #RESAW2025 will be finished.

🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

💡On to #RESAW2025 day 2!
🎤We begin with Jonathan Gray’s KEYNOTE “Public data cultures”, which explores how data is made public on the Internet amidst the rise of social media, platforms and AI.

⏳09:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114
📚Chair: Tatjana Seitz
#🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

💡The first #RESAW25 day concludes with Nanna Bonde Thylstrup’s Keynote “Vanishing points: technographies of data loss”.
⏳18:00 a.m., Unteres Schloss Hörsaal, US-C 114

🍽️ Following that, there’s a dinner reception in the Unteres Schloss Foyer (US-C 150) at 19:30 you are welcome to attend!

🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

💡#RESAW2025 continues with events such as the panel on “Data Loss in Archival Regimes: The Politics of Data Twinning, Preservation and Conversion” with Katie MacKinnon, Randi Heinrichs and Louis Ravn.

⏳14:00 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room (first floor)
📚Chair: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (University of Copenhagen)

🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

🎉#RESAW2025 has officially begun! Following some welcoming remarks by Niels Brügger and Carolin Gerlitz, we will hold an opening roundtable on the Datafied Web.

⏳09:00 a.m., Obergraben Pink Room
📚Speakers: Miglė Bareikytė, Carolin Gerlitz, Sebastian Gießmann, Thomas Haigh and Anne Helmond

🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

💡The #RESAW2025 pre-conference has kicked off today in the Herrengarten building with its pre-conference.

🗓️watch RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 4 - 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

🎉 #RESAW turns 10!
Since 2015, the Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials has been advancing web archive research, digital memory & infrastructure studies.
📍 Join the celebration at #RESAW2025:
June 5–6 | University of Siegen
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

⏳ Only one week to go until #RESAW2025!

Join us June 5–6 in Siegen for two days of talks on the datafied web, digital memory & web archives.
🎤 Keynotes by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup & Jonathan Gray

📚 70+ talks on platforms, publics & disappearing data
🎉 Celebrating 10 years of RESAW!
📍 University of Siegen
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

📚Prepare for Jonathan Gray’s keynote at #RESAW2025!
Explore how visibility is crafted (and contested) through data or discover how urban collectives co-produce data and redefine citizenship through grassroots digital practices.
A must-read to get ready for Jonathan Gray’s keynote at #RESAW2025!
🗓️ See Jonathan Gray at RESAW 2025:
📍 University of Siegen | June 6
🔗 https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

🎤 Keynote @ #RESAW2025: Jonathan Gray
“Public Data Cultures: Participation, Metrics & Memory”
How is data made public in platformised, AI-driven webs?
From open data histories to missing datasets & critical practices, this talk reimagines data as culture & participation.
📅 June 6 | Uni Siegen
🔗 Conference website: https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

The ISP that David Bowie ran for eight years https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/remembering-the-isp-that-david-bowie-ran-for-eight-years

#internet #history #Bowie #DavidBowie #90s #1990s #90sWeb #WebHistory #InternetHistory

Another must-read for #RESAW2025:
📝 Nanna Bonde Thylstrup – Data out of Place: Toxic Traces and the Politics of Recycling
(Big Data & Society, 2019)

What happens to data when it lingers, leaks, or becomes toxic?
This article explores digital waste, traceability, and the politics of digital remains.

🔗 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951719875479

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

Preparing for #RESAW2025? Start here:
📖 Nanna Bonde Thylstrup – The Politics of Mass Digitization (MIT Press, 2019)

How do mass digitization projects like Google Books reshape power, access, and memory? This book unpacks the political infrastructures behind what gets preserved, and what disappears.

🔗 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537811/the-politics-of-mass-digitization/

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

Our must-read for #RESAW2025

@vetgaming

Kaum zu glauben, was wir uns alles mal angetan haben!
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Von dem Layout bekomme ich heute spontan Kopfschmerzen…
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#retro #nostalgia #icq #website #2001 #history #webhistory

🎤 Keynote @ #RESAW2025: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
“Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss”

What happens when data vanishes —but never fully disappears?
A deep dive into digital absence, persistent traces & the politics of forgetting in datafied worlds.

📅 June 5 | Uni Siegen
🔗 Conference website: https://datafiedweb.net

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication

🔥 Only one week left! Don't forget to register by May 15 on our conference website https://datafiedweb.net/.

Do you remember…
… the beginnings of early metrics in the 90s?
… the birth of web counters?
… the novelty of seeing website visits measured in real-time?
… eye-catching graphics becoming the currency of online attention?
… the early days of companies like Webtrends, Urchin and DoubleClick?

#RESAW2025 #DatafiedWeb #WebHistory #WebArchiving #WebArchives #DigitalHeritage #Datafication