December 30, 2004

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine.



Okay, this is very cool. The Internet Wayback Machine (if you are a child of the 60's and 70's you'll get the reference) is, well, allow me to quote from the site; "The Internet Archive Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web at your fingertips. The Archive contains over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present."
To start using the Wayback Machine to surf the web as it was, just type a URL (a web site address) into the box above, click the Take Me Back button, and start exploring the past.
What you do is, type in your URL, and the wayback machine will crawl the internet and find all the cached pages and offer them for you for viewing. I put in my company URL and was able to remind myself of what a cheesy site we used to have. The Wayback Machine could come in very handy if you wanted to see what a certain site had posted from months, even years gone by.

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