New on the Shelves
Friday, July 24, 2026 in News
The catalog has added some ninety Works over the past two months. A few worth browsing: the Soviet Coup Internet Archive — the Relcom/Demos traffic that carried news in and out of Moscow during the August 1991 coup, while the broadcast media were …
Internet Talk Radio
Friday, July 24, 2026 in News
We’ve accessioned the Internet Talk Radio collection — Carl Malamud’s pioneering audio program (1993–1996), 567 items mirrored from archive.org. To make the audio searchable and citable we’re generating transcripts, using the …
Browsing the New Corpora
Friday, July 24, 2026 in News
In June we promised more on how to browse the newest accessions. The Cypherpunks main list (1992–2016), PacNOG, AfNOG, and W3C www-talk are now indexed and searchable in the Reading Room alongside the rest of the collection. The Africa Internet …
The IHI Reading Room
Friday, July 10, 2026 in News
We’ve soft-launched the IHI Reading Room, a prototype public home for the collection we’ve been assembling: the mailing lists, conference talks, and documents in which the Internet’s operator and standards communities argued the …
Collection Growth
Wednesday, June 24, 2026 in News
Recent accessions to the IHI collection: the Cypherpunks main list (1992–2016), PacNOG, AfNOG, and W3C www-talk, with Africa Internet Summit materials (2017–2026) staged for processing. More soon on how to browse all of this.
Envisioning an Internet Data Trust
Friday, May 15, 2026 in News
The writeup promised after December’s Barcelona workshop is now available. Envisioning an Internet Data Trust (January 2026) sets out the charter and operational principles for a public-interest institution dedicated to century-scale …
PingER Rescue, Continued
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 in News
An update on the PingER rescue: a first tranche of historical PingER measurement data has been transferred from SLAC into IHI custody, verified, and accessioned into the IHI catalog (ark:/26338/w/pinger). The project’s servers have since been …
IHI in The Register
Saturday, February 14, 2026 in News
The Register covered the initiative this week: Internet history is vanishing. Researchers want to save it, by Simon Sharwood — the APRICOT keynote, the replica-hosting model, and the PingER recovery. Nice to see the story reaching a wider audience.
APRICOT 2026 Keynote
Monday, February 09, 2026 in News
Jim delivered a keynote at APRICOT 2026 in Jakarta: Internet History Initiative: Preserving our Collective Data Legacy (slides). The Internet’s operational exhaust — routing tables, measurements, mailing lists, meeting archives — is …