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<p>Content pass: encyclopedic seed/expansion</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Internet historiography&#039;&#039;&#039; here means the informal and formal practices of writing history &#039;&#039;about&#039;&#039; the internet: dating first posts, preserving threads, reconstructing meme genealogies, and citing archives. It is practised by academics, journalists, archivists, and amateur documentarians on sites like [[Know Your Meme]].<br /> <br /> ==Icebergs as historical sources==<br /> [[Iceberg chart|Iceberg charts]] are primary sources for &#039;&#039;what a community publicly ranked at a time&#039;&#039;, and secondary at best for the underlying facts. Good historiography triangulates charts against timestamps, archives (e.g. Wayback Machine), and contemporary reporting.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Know Your Meme]]<br /> * [[Internet culture]]<br /> * [[Lost media]]<br /> * [[Internet folklore]]<br /> <br /> ==Sources==<br /> * Web historiography and digital preservation discussions (general).<br /> * Method notes implicit in meme-database research practices.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Internet culture]]<br /> [[Category:Internet folklore]]</div>

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