![]() There was ‘congestion’ at the digital gates. In ten weeks’ time 12.000 residents subscribed. During the first weeks all modems were sold out in Amsterdam. DDS is the oldest Dutch virtual community and played an important role in the internet history of Amsterdam and the Netherlands. Ninety percent of our records today are born digital, and therefore “the interpreting, preserving, tracing, and authenticating of these sources require the greatest degree of sophistication”.ĭDS is such a digital heritage treasury from the early days of the web in the Netherlands. The UNESCO acknowledged the historic value of our ‘born digital’ past and described it as “unique resources of human knowledge and expression”. ![]() (…) The threat to the economic, social, intellectual and cultural potential of the heritage – the building blocks of the future – has not been fully grasped” (1). In 2003 the UNESCO made an emergency call: “The world’s digital heritage is at risk of being lost” (…) and “its preservation is an urgent issue of worldwide concern. Help! Our digital heritage is getting lost! The project re:DDS, the reconstruction of DDS, was born. ![]() Time for the Amsterdam Museum and partners to act and start to safeguard the digital heritage that was created and launched in Amsterdam. But our digital heritage, and especially the digital memory of the early web, is at risk of being lost, or worse already gone. The digital (r)evolution has reshaped our lives dramatically in the last decades. The Internet celebrated its 45 years anniversary in 2014 and the World Wide Web its 25 years. In 2001 the city was taken offline and perished as a virtual Atlantis. But like many other cities in the world history, this city disappeared. DDS, the first virtual city in the world, made the internet (free) accessible to the general public in the Netherlands. On 15 January 1994 De Digitale Stad (DDS The Digital City) opened its virtual gates in Amsterdam. Twenty-one years ago a city emerged from computers, modems and telephone cables. The reconstruction of The Digital City, a case study of web archaeology
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