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The Internet Archive Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage. There are special collections, for example on Web pioneers. http://www.archive.org Archive.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Ghost Sites Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites. http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml Disobey.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Textfiles Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet. http://www.textfiles.com/ Textfiles.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   DevArchives Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free. http://www.devarchives.com Devarchives.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/ Theregister.co.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/ Theregister.co.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Register: The Web as Historical Record Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/ Theregister.co.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need? Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/ Theregister.co.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/ Firstmonday.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Web Design Timeline Ten years of web design in an archive. http://www.designtimeline.org Designtimeline.org  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check