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  • First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines
    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.
    http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/
     
  • Ghost Sites
    Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
    http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml
     
  • NoveltyNet
    A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
    http://www.noveltynet.org/
     
  • Textfiles
    Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
    http://www.textfiles.com/
     
  • The Internet Archive
    Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
    http://www.archive.org
     
  • The Register: The Web as Historical Record
    Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/
     
  • The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss
    Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/
     
  • The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved
    Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/
     
  • The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?
    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.
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/
     
  • Web Design Timeline
    Ten years of web design in an archive.
    http://www.designtimeline.org
     
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