Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.
That includes things like the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” 🙀📬 a very real web oddity now preserved only on the #WaybackMachine.
Internet history is stranger—and more fragile—than it looks.
Annie Rauwerda has built a career exploring Wikipedia’s weirdest corners 🌐
The creator of Depths of Wikipedia says, “If Wikipedia is worth anything at all, it’s because of the citations.” She’s had a “simultaneous love affair with the Internet Archive and Wikipedia” as she embraces the spirit of the open web & the community of people who support this work.
Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it.
Learn the 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations in a new guest post by researchers from King’s College London who analyze 8,600 news articles to identify how journalists use the #WaybackMachine in digital investigations.🕵️♀️
Read Follow the Changes 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/follow-the-changes/
Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it.
Learn the 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations in a new guest post by researchers from King’s College London who analyze 8,600 news articles to identify how journalists use the #WaybackMachine in digital investigations.🕵️♀️
Read Follow the Changes 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/follow-the-changes/
Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚
To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/20030301000000*/en.wikipedia.org
🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge built on a simple idea: show your sources.
In a web where pages disappear, Wikipedia endures by documenting, citing, and inviting the world to improve what we know. And when sources vanish, the #WaybackMachine helps keep them alive—preserving evidence so knowledge stays verifiable and free. 🌍📚
🎉 Can you believe Wikipedia is 25 years old? 🎂
A quarter-century of free knowledge built on a simple idea: show your sources.
In a web where pages disappear, Wikipedia endures by documenting, citing, and inviting the world to improve what we know. And when sources vanish, the #WaybackMachine helps keep them alive—preserving evidence so knowledge stays verifiable and free. 🌍📚
Wikipedia turns 25 today! 🎂📚
To celebrate, we’re looking back at its baby pictures—some of the earliest captures of the site, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
Take a nostalgic peek at early Wikipedia ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/20030301000000*/en.wikipedia.org
