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| - Many significant early web services opened around this time. | - Many significant early web services opened around this time. | ||
| - There are more resources available for purposes of restoration and archival. | - There are more resources available for purposes of restoration and archival. | ||
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| - | We prioritize the accessibility of our service. The goal is to be able to browse these historic sites as easily as if they were still online. Over the years we've placed a special emphasis on emulating the look and feel of the early Internet experience as close as possible. | ||
| Our service differs from other web archival projects such as Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at [[http://www.archive.org/|archive.org]] by some key aspects. | Our service differs from other web archival projects such as Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at [[http://www.archive.org/|archive.org]] by some key aspects. | ||
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| - File downloads are restored. | - File downloads are restored. | ||
| - | The project's aim is to preserve the user experience of visiting web sites historically accurate, and provide a guide for future generations. It is a service that can be freely used by computing history organizations for purposes of demonstrating the early Internet, and by vintage computer enthusiasts. It allows users and interested parties to browse the Internet with classic web browsers, and experience the early Internet as it was in it's early iteration. That is the essence of Retroweb, and the service is developing, as more web sites are brought online thanks to the Internet history enthusiasts who are working hard to contribute content and fix broken links. | + | The project's aim is to emulate the look and feel of the early Internet and keep preserved content historically accurate to provide a guide for future generations. We prioritize the accessibility of our service, and put a lot of effort in making the website appear as if they were still online, including work put into restoring dynamic content (website counters, search engines, web rings, guest books...) |
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| + | It is a service that can be freely used by computing history organizations for purposes of demonstrating the early Internet, and by vintage computer enthusiasts. It allows users and interested parties to browse the Internet with classic web browsers. That is the essence of Retroweb, and the service is developing, as more web sites are brought online thanks to the Internet history enthusiasts who are working hard to contribute content and fix broken links. | ||
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