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Internet Archive Blogs: Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived: Share Your Wayback Story. “Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been capturing the web—saving the voices, creativity, and communities that make up our shared digital history. Nearly one trillion pages later, we’re still archiving, so that future generations can look back and understand the world as we lived it online. Now we […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/27/celebrating-1-trillion-webpages-archived-share-your-wayback-story-internet-archive/

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Paul Kinlan: fauxmium – browse an infinite imaginary web. “What if the entire web was a unique, AI-generated experience, created just for you, on the fly? That’s the core idea behind my latest project, Fauxmium. Fauxmium is a proof-of-concept that explores what it’s like to browse an effectively infinite web. Everything you see inside the Fauxmium browser is generated in real-time by AI. It is […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/26/paul-kinlan-fauxmium-browse-an-infinite-imaginary-web/

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Frank M Taylor: America by Design is Deplorable for All. “On August 21 President Donald Trump issued an executive order for a national initiative to improve digital experiences for Americans called ‘America by Design’. After establishing a National Design Studio, one of the first products was AmericaByDesign.gov —which is deplorable for all. And I’m going to explain why.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/01/frank-m-taylor-america-by-design-is-deplorable-for-all/

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Found via Calishat Snaps: LandChad.net. “This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between…. Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/landchad-net/

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Tom’s Hardware: Internet standards body proposes new header field disclosing AI — will make it easier for machines to determine if AI was used on a site. “The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body responsible for the standards used across the web, has just released a draft document that will introduce a new header to make it easier to determine whether AI was used on a web page.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/31/toms-hardware-internet-standards-body-proposes-new-header-field-disclosing-ai-will-make-it-easier-for-machines-to-determine-if-ai-was-used-on-a-site/

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Localghost: This website is for humans . “I write the content on this website for people, not robots. I’m sharing my opinions and experiences so that you might identify with them and learn from them. I’m writing about things I care about because I like sharing and I like teaching. I spend hours writing these posts and AI spends seconds summarising them. I’d much rather people read the whole […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/25/localghost-this-website-is-for-humans/

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National Library of Wales: Collecting for the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup. “The UK Web Archive are collecting websites about the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025…. As with other tournaments held in the UK, such as the 2021 Rugby League World Cup, much of the online material is published in the UK. This means we have permission to comprehensively acquire and preserve websites related to this […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/national-library-of-wales-collecting-for-the-2025-womens-rugby-world-cup/

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Search Engine Journal: Google CTRs Drop 32% For Top Result After AI Overview Rollout. “A new study from GrowthSRC Media finds that click-through rates (CTRs) for Google’s top-ranking search result have declined from 28% to 19%. This 32% drop correlates with the expansion of AI Overviews, a feature that now appears across a wide range of search results.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/25/search-engine-journal-google-ctrs-drop-32-for-top-result-after-ai-overview-rollout/

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: UWM professors are reimagining digital libraries for the visually impaired . “The problem is that most online platforms emphasize visuals, giving little consideration to the needs and primary senses of visually impaired users. That’s why Xie, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies, is creating research-driven […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/15/university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee-uwm-professors-are-reimagining-digital-libraries-for-the-visually-impaired/

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Internet Archive Blog: Wayback Machine to Hit ‘Once-in-a-Generation Milestone’ this October: One Trillion Web Pages Archived. “This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That’s one trillion memories, moments, and movements—preserved for the public, forever.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/wayback-machine-to-hit-once-in-a-generation-milestone-this-october-one-trillion-web-pages-archived-internet-archive/

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Boing Boing: No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online “clubs” celebrate plainer websites. “The revived No JS Club celebrates websites that don’t use Javascript, the powerful but sometimes overused code that’s been bloating the web and crashing tabs since 1995. The No CSS Club goes a step further and forbids even a scrap of styling beyond the browser defaults. And there is even the No HTML Club, where […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/no-js-no-css-no-html-online-clubs-celebrate-plainer-websites-boing-boing/

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“The tactic means #chatbots absorb #content that would otherwise be excluded because it comes from an untrustworthy #source.

"Content is being aggregated by #Pravda through the seemingly independent #domain, and these chatbots are unable to realise that this site is actually a Russian propaganda site," Ms Sadeghi said.

That widely-held theory about the network's true purpose was confirmed in January this year when #JohnDougan, a key #Kremlin #propagandist, said as much at a #Moscow roundtable with journalists, which was published online.”

#AI poisoning has been known for a while. #SEO stuffing authoritative #WebPages through articles, read by crawlers and injected into #LLM s.

<abc.net.au/news/2025-05-03/pro>

ABC News · Pro-Russian influence operation targeting Australia in lead-up to election with attempt to 'poison' AI chatbotsBy Ange Lavoipierre