In January 2019, it was announced that internet provider XS4ALL would be dissolved. XS4ALL was one of the first internet providers in the Netherlands that people could get a subscription from. Many Dutch internet pioneers therefore built their first home pages through XS4ALL. Many of these early XS4ALL home pages would vanish forever in 2019. The KB's goal is to preserve all that is valuable from our past for future generations, and so we organised a rescue for these unique home pages. That resulted in our web collection of XS4ALL home pages.
Who is the web collection aimed at?
Scientist, student or layman: the web collection is valuable for anyone with an interest in the history of the early Dutch web and those who want to research home pages and web archaeology.