-SkYnEt- Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Okay, I've known about this site for probably a year, and its very cool. What you can do is look at any website at any time from 1996-Present, and see how the progressed from the "stone ages" of the internet. The WayBack Machine http://www.archive.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enders Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 yea, I recently saw that on TechTV it's a really cool site, I've been looking through some of the old news posts on www.planethalflife.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter6 Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 lol check out the old armory website. good find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-SkYnEt- Posted January 3, 2004 Author Share Posted January 3, 2004 From The Website: By Tech Live staff Printer-friendly format Email this story The Web is a vital source of information and a powerful record of the news events and cultural preoccupations of a given moment. As the Web evolves, some of those records could be lost. That's why the Internet Archive is stepping in to help preserve them. Today Cat takes a trip back in time with the Wayback Machine to show you how it works. The Wayback Machine allows people to visit archived versions of stored websites. Type a URL. Select a date. Begin surfing on an archived version of the website. For now, going "way back" means back to 1996. Archivists collect data every two months, so users will be able to find what a website looked like during a 60-day period, not necessarily on a particular date. Even the project's organizers admit they won't be able to save much of the Web's past. "A lot of homepages are gone," said Internet Archive Director Brewster Kahle. "Most webpages that were around in 1996 aren't here anymore, and some of the best webpages are out of print." Kahle began working on the Internet Archive in 1996. Last year, the archive became the purveyor of the largest text collection in existence -- its holdings surpass even those of the Library of Congress, Kahle said. The Library of Congress, Xerox PARC, IBM, and the Smithsonian are among many research groups working with the Internet Archive to store their data for posterity. The Wayback Machine was designed to provide historians and other scholars with a research tool. However, Kahle said, the project also has practical purposes for Web designers, attorneys, and journalists. The database can store 100 terabytes of data, the equivalent of tens of millions of books. Kahle said he hopes the Wayback Machine will eventually be able to locate all publicly available sites. Other areas of the site, such as the Moving Image Archive also hope to preserve culture. It holds almost 1,000 films, digitized by the Prelinger Archives, that focus on everday life, culture, and industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBojangles Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Thats a pretty cool site. Just seeing how simple some sites were back then and how complex they are now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WSAENOTSOCK Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 OMG http://web.archive.org/web/20021024033740/http://www.fa-thearmory.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enders Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 rofl!good find WSAE:[TA]- Officially Becomes a Firearms Clan Today - 6 August 2002 We officially received email notification that we were accepted and are now officially a Firearms clan at last. Here is a quote from the email [TA]- received today: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyamoto Musashi Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 You may laugh, but i remember that site very well. And that post as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam.Gen. Posted January 3, 2004 Share Posted January 3, 2004 Haha..That is interesting.....I wish I could see who the members were then..but they didn't save that in their database... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BornToDie1955 Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 Good nostalgies, but i dont been on the forum while this time : too old... Egidio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 yea, soon after that post about TA officially becoming a FA clan, some loser named Kami was addedwhat a dorkoh, waitdamn it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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