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🧅🌐 The Onion has been making the news absurd for decades. Founded as a college newspaper in 1988, The Onion launched online in 1996, bringing its unmistakably ridiculous headlines, stories & snark to the web. 30 years later, its site is still going strong & satirical as ever. Explore web history with the Wayback Machine ➡️ https://web.archive.org #TheOnion #WebHistory

35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl@w3c.social shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb. "The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it" https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all. #WebAnniversary #WebHistory

Thursday is the 35th anniversary of @timbl@w3c.social sharing about a project he called WorldWideWeb and encouraging people to "Try it." Do you remember how you felt when you first tried it? A few years after he introduced the web to the world Tim founded W3C to assemble a single organization to coordinate web standards. You can support our continued work of making the web work -- for everyone at: https://www.w3.org/support-us/#WebHistory #GivingTuesday #SupportW3C

Museum of the Human Web https://museum.parallel.ai/introduction?era=modern #HackerNews #Tech #WebHistory

The Internet I Grew Up With Doesn't Exist Anymore https://cleberg.net/blog/internet.html #WebHistory #Nostalgia #InternetCulture

Today on International Archives Day, we recognize how institutions like the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) safeguard the nation’s documentary history, ensuring accountability, preserving memory, and maintaining access to records across generations. Just as the NARA preserves a nation’s record, the Wayback Machine preserves the history of its web presence. 🕰️ 💾 Explore decades of #webhistory with the #WaybackMachine: https://web.archive.org #InternationalArchivesDay

RIP Ask Jeeves. The natural-language search engine founded in 1996 was rebranded as Ask in 2006, and officially shut down on May 1. Here are the Wayback Machine’s first and last captures of the site. When websites disappear, the historical record can disappear with them. The #WaybackMachine preserves that history – capturing the web so its past remains accessible. Explore 30 years of web history: https://web.archive.org #90s #90sNostalgia #WebHistory #WebDesign