- DevArchives
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Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.
http://www.devarchives.com
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- First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines
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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/issue9_10/wouters/
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- Ghost Sites
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Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml
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- Google Groups
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Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
http://groups-beta.google.com/
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- NoveltyNet
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A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
http://www.noveltynet.org/
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- Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine
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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/searchday/article.php/2160061
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- Textfiles
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Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
http://www.textfiles.com/
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- The Internet Archive
Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
http://www.archive.org
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- The Register: The Web as 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."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/
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- The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss
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/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/
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- The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved
Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/
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- The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?
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/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/
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- Web Design Timeline
Ten years of web design in an archive.
http://www.designtimeline.org
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