Spring Meetings
Thursday, April 24, 2025 in News
Two talks this spring. At RIPE SEE 13 in Sofia: Assessing the Internet in the SEE Region (slides). And at ZANOG25 in Durban: Contemplating Internet History: Where Do We Go Next? (slides) — the preservation story, told for the operator communities …
Baltic Sea Cable Cuts
Thursday, December 19, 2024 in News
Together with Emile Aben of the RIPE NCC, Jim co-authored a RIPE Labs analysis of November’s Baltic Sea submarine cable cuts: A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts. A reminder that today’s measurements are tomorrow’s history: …
Fall Talks
Friday, November 08, 2024 in News
Slides from two fall presentations are now available. At the RIPE 89 MAT Working Group in Prague: Measuring and Visualizing DNS Watersheds, on how geography and network proximity shape where DNS queries flow. And at the IRTF GAIA session at IETF 121 …
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.