🚧 What do dancing babies, "under construction" signs, and bubble-gum-blowing Furbys tell us about digital preservation? In the latest essay for the Internet Archive's Vanishing Culture series, writer JD Shadel explores the rise, fall, and cultural legacy of early Internet GIFs—and why they matter today.
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/
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Vanishing Culture: What Early Internet Era GIFs Show Us About Preserving Digital Culture
By JD Shadel via @internetarchive
Download the complete Vanishing Culture report here:
https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-report
Vanishing Culture: No Film Left Unscanned
"To think about film preservation is to think about much more than what we call movies."
By Rick Prelinger via @internetarchive
https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/