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Special issue on "Legacy Systems: Internet histories of the abandoned, discontinued and forgotten" is now online at Internet Histories! tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/4/1… co-edited by @_mstevenson & @silvertje. Contains many great contributions from the conference! tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/4/1

"Exploring the archived web during a highly transformative age." Here is the Call for Contributions, please join us in Marseille for #RESAW23! #webhistory resaw.eu/cfp-resaw-2023/

Available now! Doing digital history: A beginner’s guide to working with text as data by Jonathan Blaney, @jfwinters, Sarah Milligan and Martin Steer. Read a blog post written by Jonathan Blaney, here: tinyurl.com/vvpcd7b6 #History #data @EmmaEditorial #research #digital

For details on studying digital ephemeral objects: 'Social Media and Platform Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities' doi.org/10.18146/tmg.4… (OA); 'Platform and App Histories: Assessing Source Availability in Web Archives & App Repositories' doi.org/10.1007/978-3-… #dmi21

Internet Histories Early Career Researcher Award 2022. Manuscript deadline: 15 October 2021. A great publishing opportunity for junior researchers interested in web history! think.taylorandfrancis.com/internet-histo… @InternetHistor

PhD position alert! We are searching for a PhD (100%) to work with us to examine the history of online commenting technologies and practices at @UniSiegen in the project @Pop_UniSiegen. Project PIs: @J_Passmann & @silvertje. Deadline: 28 January 2021. See: jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research-A…

Raiders of the lost Web: WARCnet 💽World Wide Web 🌐 archiving discovery challenge🏃‍Show us 🖥️ wonderful things! cc.au.dk/en/warcnet/war… #webarchivingwednesday #WarcnetChallenge

Olia Lialina — Net Artist Available now @PressesReel lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php… Take apart immediately, but keep forever!

A short video presentation of our forthcoming book chapter on 'Platform and app histories': pure.uva.nl/ws/files/50281… (PDF) Presented at the #EWAVirtual conference.

Do you remember what popular micro banners looked like in the 1990s? How many of them did you have on your website? Visit our exhibition Web Banners in the 90s. webdesignmuseum.org/exhibitions/we… #InternetHistory #90snostalgia

Pre-print: In "Platform and app histories" we discuss how platforms and apps notoriously resist archiving due to their ephemerality and continuous updates but that we can find their material traces in web archives and app repositories (w/@fvandervlist). pure.uva.nl/ws/files/50281…

New publication out with @blakeplease! Remember 20 years ago when GeoCities users boycotted and thoroughly embarrassed Yahoo? We take a full look at the 1999 Haunting of GeoCities and its impact on platforms today. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

We thank you for your patience, the EWA20 Virtual Programme is now available. Big thanks to @rebeccaoneill97 @hla_pinaarchive for their work on this :) ewaconference.com/virtual-progra…

Interested in writing histories of social media platforms or in conducting historical platform studies? See: tmgonline.nl/article/10.181… for an overview of the literature and for methods and materials to conduct historical platform studies.

We are delighted to announce that the postponed #EWA20 conference will be going virtual on the 21st and 22nd of September... More details to follow #WebArchivesRock

Please follow @valerie_schafer for updates on the next RESAW web archiving conference in June 2021. The call for contributions is out now: resaw2021.net/call-for-contr…

The main topic of the 4th RESAW conference is Mainstream vs marginal content in Web history and Web archives. We are looking forward to reading your proposals. The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2020. More details at: resaw2021.net/call-for-contr…

Call for contributions for the 4th RESAW Conference to be held on 17-18 June 2021 @C2DH @uni_lu, as part of a Web Archiving week resaw2021.net/call-for-contr…

My book Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques is finally out; it's a Simondon-infused journey into the history of algorithmic information ordering and my attempt at a theory of software. Print: aup.nl/en/book/978946… Open Access: library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…