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Tony Austin
Saturday, 18 October 2008 12:45
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1996 — not too long after the Internet entered its rapid growth phase.
It has the mission "to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."
The Internet Archive say that they've been working to prevent the Internet - a new medium with major historical significance - and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past.
"Collaborating with institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian, we are working to preserve a record for generations to come."
Read here some more about the Internet Archive, or the "Wayback Machine" to use its more approachable name.
Find out even more on the FAQs page, including why some Web sites do not appear in the archive.
Apart from the obvious use of tracing the Web's evolution (seeing what sorts of site design and coding techniques were used in earlier days, etc), it has the additional benefits of any recorded history medium, including the important "right to remember" that is highlighted on the "About IA" page.
I was prompted to use the Wayback Machine a month or two ago, when briefing a team of students from Swinburne University of Technology who are doing a project on redesigning my Web site (asiapac.com.au).
I found it the only tool I could use to demonstrate to the students how the site design of my site started off simplistically in 2000 and has morphed over the years.
Then when I saw that Google Inc. turns 10 today - Happy birthday! (7th September 2008), I used the Wayback Machine to have a peek at what the Google home page looked like at the start, and how it also changed over the years, essentially remaining its simple self all that time.
The prototype Google home page is here, In comparison, read iTWire colleague Alex Zaharov-Reutt's story about another early view of Google at Go ogle Google as it was back in 2001! (Not quite right back at the very start in 1998, though.)
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