Since our National Security Security focuses on great power competition, I thought it useful to start a thread discussing a relatively recent great power competition that played out as the Cold War. There were other great power competitions prior to this that I may start threads for over time.

One recently discovered research resource is the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/about/

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.

We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 450+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages.
The first post below will provide an example from this site.