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I have recently discovered this and thought people might find it useful.

Surf the web as it was - 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.

http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html

If anyone knows how it works I would be interested to find out. Would be useful to look at how your organisation website has changed over the years.

Ian

Ian Goodman - lasa
http://www.icthubknowledgebase.org.uk
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Hi Ian,

Wayback has so many uses.

Recently a client lost their website (down the back of the sofa?) but using Wayback I found out what it used to look like and could make a copy of the original text.

It's interesting to go back and see what Yahoo and the other big names looked like in the early days of the WWW.

Jason King
Nonprofit web design: www.kingjason.co.uk

Jason

Had not thought about that as a use - excellent!

Only problem is that it allows you to look back at all those design "no-no's" that you make have done in the past - scrolling and blinking text anyone...