Monday, November 05, 2001

Mr. Peabody would be so proud: the Internet Archive Wayback Machine is just about the coolest thing I've seen on the Net all year. Plug a url into the search box at the top and it returns snapshots of that site going back as far as five years.

See Web stalwarts in their infancy. Check out pre-portalized search engines. Discover what places you visit regularly were doing before you found them. Pick over the bones of the dead. You'll find it quite addictive.

The Wayback Machine is new, but it's already getting slammed by heavy traffic. That means getting through can take a little while. It's working about half the time for me. If you don't want to deal with that hassle, wait for off-hours before you give it a whirl.

Posted @ 10:10 AM

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