I have now started a two-hour download of the Danish web from the 1990s which the national Danish web archive Netarkivet at the Royal Library has granted me access to. As one of the few national web archives Netarkivet allows for a researcher to apply for having web content extracted from its collections, and having the material in other forms than the browsable Wayback Machine familiar for all users of the Internet Archive allows for a variety of new forms of analysis, including analyses of words, images, hyperlink networks, and much more. I can only recommend researchers within all fields to start using this treasure trove of Danish cultural history.
Also, of course, a very big thanks to the Internet Archive who initially collected the material way back in the 1990s and from where Netarkivet has acquired the content.
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