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 Post subject: The 'Wayback Machine' - check this out!
PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2001 11:26 am 
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This is something interesting - The Internet Archive. These guys periodically mirror a huge number of sites, with the aim of creating a huge "digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts". Basically you can go there, type in a web address, hit the Take Me Back button, and you get a list of all the archives they have of that site. Even mine's in there! Man, I don't even want to think how much storage these guys are using.

This might be handy in retrieving some of our stuff since all those websites and servers (NBCi etc) closed down.
http://web.archive.org/


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It is indeed cool, when it works (too popular). The first things I searched for I found, dead domains like frate.com -- and the lost pages are there of course. I tried some xoom/nbci but couldn't get anything, been meaning to try again.

[This message has been edited by Winterkill (edited 08-12-2001).]


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2001 1:46 pm 
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>>I tried some xoom/nbci but couldn't get anything, been meaning to try again

I entered my old xoom.com address (http://members.xoom.com/d2smtm2) and got one entry back, dated June 2000. When I clicked on it, the text pages came up a treat but none of the pics (or, I wager, downloads) worked. I didn't try the NBCi address, since it was only subtly different, but it might return a different result.

It's an interesting find all right, but their mission statement - 'creating a digital library of cultural artifacts for use by researchers and the general public' - in my mind just conjures up an image of historians etc, ten or twenty years in the future, studying our websites! I wonder what they'll think of us?


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PostPosted: Sat Nov 17, 2001 8:03 pm 
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Hmmmm....I just looked there for copies of my now-defunct scrapyard that was at HOMESTEAD. I found 8 copies, with the earliest being feburary 2001. But when I clicked on them, I got sent to the same "site suspended" homestead message page I see when I try to go directly to my scrapyard. I wonder how "Homey-stead" pulled that trick, since the site wasn't blocked (no more free sites) until a month or 2 ago?

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 11, 2001 10:03 am 
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On a similar note: <a href=http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49016,00.html>wired news</a>

"<a href=http://groups.google.com/>Google</a> announced Tuesday that its Usenet archive now includes 20 years worth of discussions, with 700 million postings from more than 35,000 topical categories dating back to May 1981."

"Of course, the archive isn't comprised of only momentous messages. All the 20-year-old *beep* is back too, along with the chronicles of many nasty flamewars. And yes, everything a callow youth ever said in Usenet, back before they had a real job or professional reputation to worry about, has now returned to haunt them."


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