Open Directory - Computers: Internet: History: Archives
See also: - A harvest of Federal Agency public web sites as they existed prior to January 20, 2005. - 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. - Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites. - Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years. - 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. - 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. - Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet. - Digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. The collection includes public information films, recordings and Web harvest of political related and government websites. - 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. - Creating an archive of culturally significant UK websites. - Ten years of web design in an archive. - On-demand archiving system for web pages, usable for generating permanent references. Information about the service; archiving and search forms. - 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. (October 04, 2004) - Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does. (July 09, 2004) - Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC). (June 24, 2004) - Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date." (May 04, 2004) - 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. (September 15, 2003) - 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. (June 05, 2002)
