The Internet Archive Project

Have you ever reminesced longingly about the simplicity of your first web page or have you ever been curious about what the first Google web page looked like (see below), if so, you have to click right over to the Internet Archive Project (http://www.archive.org) and try their "Way Back Machine". The Way Back Machine can recall old versions of most web pages from the mid 1990's on.




The Internet Archive Project's goal is to provide a library of past and present content on the internet. In their own words:

The Internet Archive 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.

But that is not all the Internet Archive Project Does! In addition to web pages, the Internet Archive also stores digital media including

• Moving Pictures (137,000 Movies and Shows, such as a 1957 episode of The Price Is Right)
• Live Music (53000 Concerts, such as Smashing Pumpkins Live at VPRO Radio Studios on 1993-06-30 )
• Audio Files (314000 Recordings, such as a radio recording of 1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debate)
• Texts (528000 Texts, such as Wakefield's western farmers' almanac and account book (Volume 1862))
• Nasa Photos (in conjunction with Nasa at www.nasaimages.org)
  

This is a wonderful resource, one that should be included in everyone's book mark list ... its on my Delicious list