Help preserve our digital past
Launched in 2001, when internet use was still spreading, EminAbi.com brought together Turkish-speaking people in Türkiye and other countries. Over the years, it reached thousands of registered members and a much wider audience of visitors. The forum hosted countless discussions about relationships, family life, social issues, culture and everyday life.
Between 2002 and 2005, the Dert Ortağı feature in Ekin Dergisi brought views and experiences from the forum to the printed page. It connected a digital community with a magazine readership in a project that was noteworthy for its time. Historical forum posts, original magazine pages and documents from that period are now accessible again.
For historians, universities and research institutions
We believe that the EminAbi.com archive contains material worth examining in research into early Turkish-language internet culture, digital communication among Turkish communities in Europe, migration and diaspora, social relationships and the history of participatory publishing.
We invite historians, universities, researchers, libraries, museums and organisations working with digital cultural heritage to explore this collection. We welcome its use in academic research, its inclusion in digital heritage collections where appropriate, and its documentation for future generations.
Within our available resources, we are ready to assist interested individuals and institutions with historical information, existing documents and explanations of the archive’s structure.
For the press and other media
We also invite newspapers, magazines, television channels, digital publishers and other media organisations to introduce the history of EminAbi.com and its reopened archive to their audiences.
Coverage through your own channels can help reconnect people who once belonged to this community and bring early Turkish-language internet culture to a wider audience. We value every expression of interest and all editorial support, and thank everyone who contributes.
Passing the collection on
EminAbi.com seeks to preserve the accumulated knowledge, personal stories and publishing history alongside their original documents. We value independent research into the archive’s historical and cultural significance, its documentation and its preservation for future generations.
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