FYI: Internet Archive Launches Wayback Machine (fwd)

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

	Yes, it works, in way, to get back the first
	screens of the www.tgrp.com.
	But as always, not the complete depth due to
	dumb search engines and non-plain text coding.
	I have a reaped copy anyway
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" From owner-slapam-l@xxxxxxxx Thu Oct 25 12:42:43 2001
" From: "Gerry Mckiernan" 
" To: 
" Subject: FYI: Internet Archive Launches Wayback Machine
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" INTERNET ARCHIVE LAUNCHES WAYBACK MACHINE
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" Free Service Enables Users to Access Archived Versions of Web Sites Dating
" from 1996
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" SAN FRANCISCO (October 24, 2001)
"
" The Internet Archive [ http://www.archive.org/ ], a comprehensive
" library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form,
" today launched the Wayback Machine, a free service allowing people to
" access and use archived versions of past web pages. For the first time,
" all members of the public will be able to search and view the Internet
" Archive*s enormous collection of web sites, dating back to 1996 and
" comprising over 10 billion web pages.
"
" The service, which was unveiled tonight at a ceremony at the University of
" California at Berkeley*s Bancroft Library, is available at
" web.archive.org. To use the Wayback Machine, visitors simply type in a URL
" in the provided search box, select a date, and then begin surfing on an
" archived version of the web.
"
" ³In 1996, we created the Internet Archive because we felt it was critical
" to preserve a permanent record of this historically significant new medium
" for the public,² said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. ³To date,
" the Archive has catalogued over ten billion web pages that might otherwise
" have been lost, giving us both a record of the origins and evolution of
" the Internet, as well as snapshots of our society as a whole around the
" turn of the century. For our fifth anniversary, we are opening up the
" Archive to the public by launching the Wayback Machine, so that everyone
" can travel back in time and view the Internet as it was in the past
" future.²
"
" Since 1996, when the Internet Archive was founded in order to create a
" permanent collection of digital material for the public, the Internet
" Archive has been storing and recording web pages. Collaborating with
" institutions including the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian
" Institution, the Internet Archive*s comprehensive library of the Web's
" digital past comprises 100 terabytes of data and is growing at a rate of
" 10 terabytes per month, eclipsing the amount of data contained in every
" library in the world including the Library of Congress, and making it the
" largest known database in existence.
"
" ³By keeping an historical record of what Web sites looked like and how
" they evolved over time, the Internet Archive is an invaluable resource for
" journalism educators, academic researchers and people who just want to see
" how the media and our culture marked important historical events,² said
" Paul Grabowicz, Director of the New Media Program and Assistant Dean at
" Northgate UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. ³Now, thanks to the
" Archive's new Wayback Machine, everyone has the opportunity to revisit,
" study and enjoy these important 'first drafts of history'.²
"
" About the Internet Archive The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 in
" order to build a digital library and other cultural artifacts in digital
" form, with the purpose of offering permanent and free access to
" researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Archive
" holds a collection of archived web pages, dating from 1996 and comprising
" 100 terabytes. Since 1999, the Archive has expanded its collections to
" include: a September 11 television and online catalog; an Election 2000
" online library; archived movies from 1903-1973; and other documents.
" Located in San Francisco, the Archive is a 501(c)(3) public nonprofit
" whose benefactors include Alexa Internet, AT&T Research, Compaq, the
" Kahle/Austin Foundation, Prelinger Archives, Quantum DLT, Xerox PARC, the
" Library of Congress, and the National Science Foundation.
"
" [http://www.archive.org/wayback/press_kit/press_release.html ]
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