“He said this was archaeology: ‘You’re digging up websites and restoring them to their former glory. You’re recontextualising them and they’re telling us about dotcom culture.
What I’m trying to do…is bring back the website together with the technology that it was built in and for. It’s not just about the website itself, but about the hardware, the operating system, the plugin and the browser. It’s about showing them in one environment together so that people can really appreciate the websites and the environments that they were optimised for.”
More at… wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-01/15/digital-archaeologist-saves-old-websites
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