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 Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/ Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years. |
 Ghost Sites - http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites. |
 Textfiles - http://www.textfiles.com/ Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet. |
 Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine - http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2160061 Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date. |
 The Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage. There are special collections, for example on Web pioneers. |
 Pandora Archive - http://pandora.nla.gov.au Australia's Web archive, established initially by the National Library of Australia, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations. |
 UK Web Archiving Consortium - http://www.webarchive.org.uk Creating an archive of culturally significant UK websites. |
 The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/ Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive. |
 The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/ Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does. |
 The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/ Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC). |
 The Register: The Web as Historical Record - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/ Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date." |
 First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/ Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices. |
 MINERVA: Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/html/minerva-home.html Library of Congress Web Archiving Project aims to collect and preserve Web sites useful in serving the current or future informational needs of Congress and researchers. |
 DevArchives - http://www.devarchives.com Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free. |
 Programming and Software Development List Archives - http://www.archivesat.com Searchable online archives of mailing list discussions containing thousands of lists with millions of messages, with spam filters. |
 2004 U.S. Federal Agency Web Harvest - http://www.webharvest.gov/ A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005. |
 Web Design Timeline - http://www.designtimeline.org Ten years of web design in an archive. |
 NewsletterArchive.org - http://newsletterarchive.org Aims to archive and make available to the public all email newsletters and electronic mailing lists. It will rely on user contributions for its content. |
 The European Archive - http://www.europarchive.org/ Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites. |
 Archive-It.org - http://www.archive-it.org/ A subscription service from the Internet Archive, which allows institutions to build, manage and search their own web archive. Includes the sites of universities, libraries, and special interest collections of websites. |