// /j - Field Notes & Reports

Archival Journal

Technical deep-dives, preservation milestones, recovered site spotlights, and field notes from the frontlines of digital archaeology.

1998-11-14 Preservation 8 min read

The GeoCities Migration: What We Saved

A detailed breakdown of our Q3 crawling initiative targeting personal homesteads. We recovered 14,200 unique HTML structures before the hosting collapse.

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1997-06-22 Tech & Tools 12 min read

Reverse-Engineering Table-Based Layouts

How we standardized the parsing of nested `

` structures without losing visual fidelity. Includes our custom CSS injection pipeline.

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1996-09-05 Discoveries 6 min read

Found: The First Interactive MIDI Player

Located on a forgotten MIT department page, this 1994 experiment used Java applets to stream audio. We've preserved the bytecode and surrounding DOM.

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1999-03-18 Community 5 min read

WebRing Roundup: April 1999 Index

Mapping the social graphs of the early web. Our crawler indexed 8,400 active WebRings across 14 niche communities. Full directory attached.

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1995-12-01 Preservation 9 min read

Y2K Readiness & Server Hardening

Preparing our archival infrastructure for the millennium bug. We've audited all date-handling scripts and migrated legacy Unix cron jobs.

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