PingER Rescue
Thursday, October 24, 2024 in News
After the shutdown of the PingER project at SLAC, decades of measurement data dating back to the late 1990s were feared lost. We’ve contacted SLAC IT and are in the process of recovering and archiving this collection for posterity. PingER was …
Internet Exchange Point History Collection
Wednesday, September 04, 2024 in News
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
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 in News
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
Thursday, April 11, 2024 in News
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 …
Mirroring RIPE RIS
Friday, March 15, 2024 in News
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
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 in News
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
Thursday, January 18, 2024 in News
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
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in News
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.