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News
Internet Exchange Point History Collection
New link to the IXP History Collection, an ongoing project which seeks to record and document global histories of computer networking and internet exchange points (IXPs).
Berkman Klein Fellowship
Jim Cowie will be joining Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center as a 2024-2025 Fellow, working with the Harvard Law Library Innovation Lab (LIL) to pursue the Internet History Initiative research themes. Read more here.
IHI Joins DNS-OARC
The Internet History Initiative has officially joined DNS-OARC . The history of DNS operations is, in a real sense, the history of the Internet. We’re looking forward to connecting with the DNS-OARC community to explore and celebrate this legacy in coming years!
Mirroring RIPE RIS
We’ve completed our first offsite preservation mirror of the RIPE RIS historical BGP datasets, all collectors, from inception, and continue to mirror with a 1 day lag. More sources available under Sources.
Initial resource index
First sets of links to public data repositories are now
available under Sources. Please
suggest additional public data resources that you’d like to see linked here.
IHI assigned NAAN 26338
The ARK Alliance has assigned the Internet History Initiative a unique Name Assigning
Authority Number (NAAN) for use in its issuance of unique ARKs,
joining more than 1200 participating institutions
in the ARK Alliance.
Welcome to InternetHistoryInitiative.org
Feel free to get in touch if you or your institution would like to learn more about participating in the preservation and curation of the Internet infrastructure’s historical datasets.