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Lisa Wong

Lead Digital Archivist & Web Historian

Specializing in the preservation of early interactive media, GeoCities ecosystems, and mid-90s web culture. Lisa has spent over a decade cataloging fragile digital artifacts, developing preservation pipelines for frame-based layouts, and leading collaborative recovery initiatives with university libraries and independent archivists.

Currently indexing: WebRing collections (1996–1999)
11
Years Active
2.4M
Pages Cataloged
34
Research Papers
18
Collections Led
◈ Lead Collections
Athens & Helios District Recovery 1998–1999

Comprehensive restoration of 14,000+ personal homepages from the demolished GeoCities Athens and Helios districts. Includes custom table-layout reassembly and visitor counter calibration.

📦 892 GB 🔗 42k links mapped ✅ Fully Preserved
Netscape Navigator Documentation Vault 1995–1997

Archiving of official dev documentation, beta forum threads, and early CSS/JS experimentation sites. Preserves the foundational knowledge base of mid-90s web development.

📦 310 GB 🔍 12k pages 📜 Public Domain
WebRing Preservation Initiative 1996–2000

Tracking and snapshotting defunct WebRing networks (Science, Art, Music, Tech). Recreates navigation flows and inter-site link structures for contextual browsing.

📦 540 GB 🔗 89 rings mapped 🔄 Ongoing
◈ Selected Publications
"Beyond the Under Construction GIF: Preserving Ephemeral Web Culture"
Digital Preservation Journal, Vol. 14 · 2022
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"Frames, Tables, and Context: Reconstructing 1997 Layout Paradigms"
IEEE Computer Society, Web Heritage Track · 2021
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"MIDI in the Browser: Audio Artifacts of the Early Web"
Journal of Digital Media Archive · 2020
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"The Human Element: GeoCities, Identity, and Pre-Social Media Communities"
Conference on Internet Archaeology · 2019
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