On an earlier post I wrote about the "Way Back Machine" digital archiving site and how to effectively use it. Now, the narrative is about a few more online systems to gain access to older, defuncted web pages.
Archive.is takes one to a time capsule for web pages!
It takes a 'snapshot' of a webpage that will always be online even if the original page disappears. It saves a text and a graphical copy of the page for better accuracy
and provides a short and reliable link to a un-editable record of any web page
including those from Web 2.0 sites:
This can be useful if you want to take a 'snapshot' of a page which could change soon: price list, job offer, real estate listing, drunk blog post. Since the saved snapshots have no scripts, there is no danger of any viruses or other malware.
cachedview.com is run by Google is a system that frequently crawls the web, taking snapshots of pages cached by Google. This site is particularly helpful if a site is down for any reason.
oldweb.today allows you to reminisce on how far web browsing has come since the early years. If terms like "Mosaic", "Navigator", or even IE 4,5, and 6 bring up painful memories of how web crawling use to be, then oldweb.today allows you to reexperience it. Of course, the primary function is to archive web pages.
timetravel.mementoweb.org has two distinctions that make it unique in the web page archiving group. The Time Travel Find tool allows you to find old sites from many European records and library sites. The Time Travel Reconstruct allows you to view the older components (HTML, CSS, images, etc.) that make up those archived pages.
Enjoy looking at the past!!
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