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Webpages have long stopped being just static “documents”. Since the introduction of inline graphics and JavaScript, they have moved towards becoming executable code dependent on specific browsers and feature sets. On the basis of examples from the history of net art and the legacy browser service oldweb.today, this chapter presents the value of preserving browser software along with web archives.
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Espenschied, D., Kreymer, I. (2021). Oldweb.today: Browsing the Past Web with Browsers from the Past. In: Gomes, D., Demidova, E., Winters, J., Risse, T. (eds) The Past Web. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_20
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