Welcome

Thanks for the interest a lot of you have already expressed, on this page and offline. Dan Brickley and I will be the chairs of this group, and in the course of next week we will send a “charter”, or at least a description of the activities and the objectives we’ve thought of when we decided to create this group. Hopefully this description will help start the discussion and figure out what the group will first focus on.

Perfect Timing

I can’t tell you how excited I am about this group’s existence!  I’ve recently started collecting a few pieces of history on my own, and have been slowly gearing up to start documenting the stories of people and events in web history before they’re lost.  To think that a group of like-minded people can help with that is…well, it’s incredibly exciting.  I may have said.

I don’t have the material I’ve collected up anywhere public, but I hope that will change.  When it does, I’ll leave word here.  If anyone has pointers to particularly obscure or otherwise fragile historical works, please let the group know so we can be sure to archive it.

Thanks to Shane Hudson for getting word of the CG to me, and I am really looking forward to what we find together!

Browser Archive

I know the group has existed for about 3 minutes, but I am writing this now before I get distracted by … ooh shiny!

Anyway, I also don’t know if this group will have its conversations here (like the Responsive Image community group) or via email (like the Web Education community group), so I am dropping this here.

Many years ago (15+) I created a browser archive which resides at browsers.evolt.org. In itself it is full of chunks of web history and I suspect might interest this group even if the group tends toward other bits of web history.

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