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March 20, 2008
The Web, pre-Web
The Web, pre-Web: Andy Baio did a great thing here: "Lately, I've started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s. While most of these are pretty corny -- think Gabe and Max's Internet Thing -- they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don't exist anywhere else. The Internet Archive's earliest snapshots were in late 1996, so anything before that is extremely sparse. The videos, silly as they are, still represent valuable documentation of the early web. I spent most of the day yesterday working on a workflow to digitize VHS tapes, settling on VCR to MiniDV camera my Macbook Pro with Firewire. These tapes are pretty worn, so the quality's not great, but that almost adds to their charm...." Lots of the early Web has disappeared, so we all owe Andy a debt of thanks for capturing what was found of it on videotapes.... ;-)
Posted by JohnDowdell at March 20, 2008 02:36 PM
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