Preserving the World Wide Web

[wintonian]

It seems that the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, Bodleian Libraries, Cambridge University Library and Trinity College Dublin, are now able to preserve the UK's (and Ireland's?) contributions to the web.

The British Library to commemorate this has published a list of the top 100 websites that should be preserved for future generations to use.

It is quite an interesting list, that along with obvious candidates such as Parliament.UK and the Met Office, lists sites that offer social commentary of our time like Neverseconds, The Dreamcast Junkyard, Argos hock: and Chavtowns.

I didn't notice anything particularly railway related (although for some reason this forum is archived here) but my particular favourite has got to b thee Glamping website and S*** London (I can't believe we even censor URL shortners :-x)

So what d other people think should be preserved for prosperity or historical interest from the internet, the routing guide and it's various versions perhaps?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Is our beloved website not on their list in a main featured non-archive section...hock:

 

[GatwickDepress]

If Merda Londinium (declension be damned) is being preserved, might I suggest You Park Like a C**t should also be preserved for posterity. It's strangely cathartic to browse through...oh as well as showing what is inferred about the owner of a specific vehicle and attitudes towards them from the vehicle and style of parking twuntiness alone.

Railway related, perhaps something such as Railway Eye could be preserved.

I'd like to see the NRCoC and the Routing Guide preserved...ideally in a "Christ almighty, weren't we difficult back then!?" section.

 

[wintonian]

I almost forgot, there is one piece of 'live' railway history walesandwest.co.uk, which strangely is still being renewed by ' Wales and West Passenger Trains Ltd' of 'Brunel House', Cardiff.

 

[NSEFAN]

Isn't this already a well established thing? The Wayback machine makes for a good browse if you've got time to kill. I find that it's particularly interesting to go through the old news articles.

 

[90sWereBetter]

F1Rejects.com. Probably the best Formula One website out there.

 

[Drsatan]

I'd have thought http://www.b3ta.com/ would have been preserved for posterity. If b3ta goes, no longer will I be able to read other people's stories, only the rubbish posted on TrueLad.