Computers Internet History Archives

20 sites in Archives

2004 U.S. Federal Agency Web Harvest Save
A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005.
http://www.webharvest.gov/

Archive-It.org Save
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.
http://www.archive-it.org/

DevArchives Save
Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.
http://www.devarchives.com

First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines Save
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.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/iss...

Ghost Sites Save
Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/ind...

Google Groups Save
Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
http://groups.google.com/

MINERVA: Mapping the INternet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive Save
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.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/...

NewsletterArchive.org Save
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.
http://newsletterarchive.org

NoveltyNet Save
A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
http://www.noveltynet.org/

Pandora Archive Save
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.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au

Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine Save
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.
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage...

Textfiles Save
Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
http://www.textfiles.com/

The European Archive Save
Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites.
http://www.europarchive.org/

The Internet Archive Save
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.
http://www.archive.org

The Register: The Web as Historical Record Save
Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/...

The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss Save
Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/...

The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved Save
Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/...

The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need? Save
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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/...

UK Web Archiving Consortium Save
Creating an archive of culturally significant UK websites.
http://www.webarchive.org.uk

Web Design Timeline Save
Ten years of web design in an archive.
http://www.designtimeline.org