The City of Seattle launched its first web interface, the Public Access Network, during the week ending February 1, 1995. A total of 33 users accessed the site that day. From its creation, the City of Seattle website has gone through three web addresses, www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us from 1995-1999, www.cityofseattle.net from 1999-2001, and www.seattle.gov , 2001-present. From 1997 to 2004, the percentage of Seattle residents using the City website grew from 10% to 50%. City departments launched their own websites between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, Seattle Channel, a Government Access Channel granted to the City of Seattle for the purpose of cablecasting government television programs, was launched. My Neighborhood -- The City of Seattle's Mapping Portal was created in 2006. The City of Seattle website has been awarded the Best of the Web City Portal Award twice, in 2006 and 2011.
Official City of Seattle websites and related social media sites make up the bulk of the collection. Among the seattle.gov pages are numerous city department sites, sites for city services, and sites for Seattle visitors, residents and businesses. Also captured are many city department and elected officials’ blogs, Twitter feeds, as well as Flickr and Facebook pages. Other related sites that are included are those for events, partnerships, organizations and projects of which the City of Seattle or one of its departments are involved, such as the Saving Water Partnership and Seattle Streetcar.
Records are open to the public.
[Item and date], City of Seattle Harvested Websites, Record Series 0001-01. https://www.archive-it.org/collections/3241. Seattle Municipal Archives.
Websites in the collection can be viewed alphabetically by url or title. Snapshots for each website are chronologically ordered.
City of Seattle Website. 29 Nov. 2001-. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20010415000000*/http://seattle.gov.
History of Seattle.gov Web Site: Internet Timeline for Seattle.gov and the World, http://www.seattle.gov/pan/history.htm
Seattle Public Access Network Website. 26 Nov. 1999-. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. http://web.archive.org/web/20130126181327*/http://www.cityofseattle.net/
Seattle Public Access Network Website. 19 Oct. 1996-12 Oct. 2013. Internet Archive Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/19961018144658/http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/
Sites selected for inclusion in the collection are harvested on a recurring basis.
In July 2012, the Seattle Municipal Archives began archiving city and city-related websites using Archive-It.