the internet archive

I often use the wayback machine on archive.org when trying to find old internet material. As of November 2006 they have 55 billion pages archived. People are always amazed when they use it first and go back to look at their old site or company site from 1996 or 1997... it's like driving by your old house ...emotional ;-)

The Archive say;-

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.

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