Library of Congress to Preserve Tweets for Eternity. Today the Library of Congress is announcing that it's doing its part to digitally preserve each and every public tweet since the beginning of time ... err Twitter.
It fittingly broke the news on Twitter earlier today. As a federal cultural institution, the Library of Congress exists for research purposes, preserving every form of written word imaginable — and now that includes our tweets. The institution deems tweets important and hopes to use the archives "to learn about ourselves and the world around us. " Twitter further explains the news in its own announcement. Biz Stone writes that after a six-month delay, "Tweets will be used for internal library use, for non-commercial research, public display by the library itself, and preservation. " The news is quite significant and reinforces the importance of the information we share in 140 characters or less. [img credit: Rainer Ebert] Memolane. It's a memory thing - Tales of Things. Twitter History Was Made!
It’s been so much fun on Twitter the past few days as everyone waited in anticipation to see who would be the one that was lucky enough to send the 10 billionth tweet and make Twitter history.
I’ve heard stories of super geeks trying to strategically figure out when the exact nano second should be in order to claim that perfect moment in time and be the one that sends that tweet. I’ve also heard of other people planning to stay up all night long tonight if they had to in order to watch history in the making. Well, all the tweets have been sent and it’s time to unveil who and what that 10 billionth tweet was all about. Thanks, once again, to my genius friend @cheth who was able to precisely track this information, we are able to deliver it to you within minutes of it happening.
Who sent that tweet and what did it say? The scoop is that the actual 10 billionth tweet was sent by a protected user and we can’t see it! Hmmm… somehow this whole thing isn’t so exciting after all. :) Popular Search Engines in the 90’s: Then and Now. In the heydays of the internet – when Google wasn’t the only search engine people used to seek information on the web – web surfers (I bet you haven’t heard that term in a while) had several options for finding what they needed on the net.
This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put your nostalgia hats on as we travel back to the ancient times of the internet! HotBot Excite WebCrawler Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) Yahoo! The future Google Dogpile AltaVista Lycos MSN Search (now Bing) AOL Search. BackTweets.