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Have You Ever Wanted to Travel Back in Time?
Posted by Matt | Posted in News and Info | Posted on June-1-2010
Me too! But since we all know that’s not possible (at least not without a flux capacitor) let’s talk about a site that will get you as close as possible to time travel. In existence since the very early days of the internet (1995) Archive.org has archived nearly every website, audio, live music, text, and moving image that has been posted online in the last fifteen years. Most users of this site however take advantage of the coolest feature called the “Wayback Machine” (with a top speed of 88 mph… OK I’ll stop). With over 150 billion pages currently in its archive the Wayback Machine has the most extensive collection of webpages on the internet today.
It works like this: users go to the site and type in the URL of a website (let’s use Yahoo as our example) and then click ‘Take Me Back’. It then takes you to a search results page that has the years, number of pages, as well as links with exact dates of went a snapshot was taken. For example the earliest snapshot of Yahoo.com was on October 17, 1996 and links to this snapshot. This can be done for most websites in existence (with a few exceptions).
So just thought I’d share this neat tool that can be used for research or for those of us with a curious streak. Whichever reason you decide to use it, I’m sure you’ll find it to be a valuable resource! (I’m sure Doc Brown would have agreed…alright I lied!).
