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 …
Using collection context to reduce errors in automated transcription of historical audio
Thursday, July 23, 2026 in Practice Notes
This note is also available as a typeset PDF. Background We recently accessioned the Internet Talk Radio collection (Carl Malamud, 1993–1996; 567 audio items mirrored from archive.org). To make the audio searchable and citable we need transcripts. We …
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 …
Internet Data Trust Workshop in Barcelona
Friday, December 12, 2025 in News
As part of the Internet Society’s inaugural Pulse Research Week in Barcelona (December 8–11), ISOC Pulse and IHI co-organized a hybrid workshop on December 10: Internet Data Trust: Preserving the Internet’s Historical Data Legacy. More …
CAPIF 4 in Almaty
Friday, September 26, 2025 in News
At CAPIF 4 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Jim presented DNS Without Borders: Uncovering Regional Hubs and Dependencies in K-Root Traffic (slides), work with the RIPE NCC continuing the DNS watersheds theme: where Central Asia’s root-server queries …