Posts in 2026
  • CAPIF 5 in Dushanbe

    Saturday, September 26, 2026 in News

    CAPIF 5, the Central Asia Peering and Interconnection Forum, met in Dushanbe on 24–25 September, the forum’s first meeting in Tajikistan. In the History of the Internet session on the second afternoon, Jim presented Central Asian Stories: How …

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  • A Russian–English Glossary from the CAPIF Record

    Saturday, September 26, 2026 in News

    The research behind The Wires of the Steppe left the collection a serendipitous by-product: a Russian–English glossary of interconnection vocabulary, built from the CAPIF record itself. The collection holds 89 talks from the first four CAPIF meetings …

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  • Before the Internet

    Friday, September 04, 2026 in News

    The Reading Room has a new wing. Before the Internet is a special exhibit on a century of telegraph and telephone monopoly politics, 1834–1930, as it was argued in Boston’s own newspapers: the government-telegraph movement rising and failing, …

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  • The Shelf Now Starts in 1981

    Sunday, August 16, 2026 in News

    The collection’s operator record now reaches back to 1981. We’ve accessioned the TCP-IP list — 39,123 messages, 13 October 1981 through December 1994, from the securitydigest.org archive — along with its digest edition (1981–1983) and the …

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  • IETF 126

    Monday, August 03, 2026 in News

    IETF 126 met in Vienna, 18–24 July. The collection accessioned its presentation materials as the meeting proceeded; session recordings and minutes follow after adjournment.

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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.

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