View Deleted or Past Incarnations of Websites

Posted under Free Resources, Resources by ltruex

In general, if a website is deleted or changed its gone…or is it? Back in 1996 Brewster Kahle created a software that would crawl the internet and make a copy of what it found creating a vitural library of web pages. Since then, the site (The Internet Archive) has not only stored 2 petabytes of web information, but it also stores a collection of movies, music, ebooks, and other electronic media. According to the site:

The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

To view extinct or previous incarnations of web sites, visit The Internet Archive, type the URL of the site you want to view into the Wayback Machine, and click the Take Me Back button.