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                  “Set the Wayback machine to 1996, Sherm … ”
                                        
Oh my. I just came across the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, [1] with an
archive of the web going back to 1996. Okay, it may not be the entire web,
but as they state: 



> You are about to use the world's largest database. With over 100 terabytes
> and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present, the Wayback
> Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web and the sum of all human
> knowledge at your fingertips. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web
> address of a site where you would like to start, and press enter. Then
> select from the archived dates available. 
> 

I tried it on an old URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of mine: 

http://pineal.math.fau.edu/~spc/ 

And yes, it did fine a link [2] to that page, and unlike Google's [3] cache,
it includes the picture [4] that was on the site at the time. Quite
impressive. 

I then decided to see if I could resurrect the site my old partner Chuck [5]
had, but the site kept giving me internal server errors. Hmmmm … 

[1] http://web.archive.org/
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19980502104401/pineal.math.fau.edu/~spc/
[3] http://www.google.com/
[4] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/1998/0301.html
[5] http://www.armigeron.com/people/chuck/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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