Arhives for free...

[Intrigued]

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

http://www.archive.org/

Check this out (Wayback Machine, links on the page that loads from the link above)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.indigorose.com

[Intrigued]

I noticed when using the Wayback Machine tool... just add your Website URL after:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/

Maybe this could be worked into an AMS project?

Anyway, I had forgotten about that site and thought it was neat to try it out again.

[Corey]

Cool.

[Dermot]

That is so cool, Thanks for the link.

I get that "what was I thinking" feeling when you look back at my web sites 3 years ago.

[Intrigued]

That is so cool, Thanks for the link.

I get that "what was I thinking" feeling when you look back at my web sites 3 years ago.

Out of shear embarrassment.. I won't share my Websites from the Wayback Machine queries!

[Dermot]

I noticed that any images like logos and screen shots I had used are displayed briefly and then are covered with a grey box. I wonder why that is?

Just curious.

[Intrigued]

I noticed that any images like logos and screen shots I had used are displayed briefly and then are covered with a grey box. I wonder why that is?

Just curious.

I'm not sure... and I'm not sure if Flash objects are showing up?

[Dermot]

Strange, some of the images show and some don't.

Another neat thing about this is you can access any files you had available for download. Just last week I had a customer who was running an old old version of one of my programs. He needed to reinstall an update but I could not find the file. Instead I had to send him the full version on CD. This would have saved a lot of time and hassle.

[Intrigued]

Try replacing the * in ... http://web.archive.org/web/*/ .. with a year. It seems to work and cuts down the time for the search (I'm surmising that "*" is for all records (years).

[Dermot]

I have just been playing the 1997 IR classics ArithmeTick-Tac-Toe and Multimeadia Spelling Bee.

By the way they run fine on XP Pro.

[Intrigued]

I have just been playing the 1997 IR classics ArithmeTick-Tac-Toe and Multimeadia Spelling Bee.

By the way they run fine on XP Pro.

Ya, lmao, I saw those too. Cool!

[Corey]

WOW. That *is* freaky looking back on sites I've worked on and/or designed over the years. There's literally hundreds and hundreds of them in there from my old days stamping out quickies for the ISPs, with a couple going all the way back to late 1998. Dang. Wow. Dang. Dang wow. What a wild ride.

Interestingly it doesn't have any record at all of my very first domain though:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://...reamingcat.com

I wonder why? It seems to have a reference to every other site I worked on, including some before that one, and many which were just inconsequential 5 pagers which took less than a day to complete, i.e.:
http://web.archive.org/web/200110260...fredshair.com/

[Intrigued]

I won't say where but I have found a link that works for AMS 2.0. What? No plugin support?



*Oh, found version 1.0. Boy, I.R. you have really brought this segment of the market a long way!

Wow! That version 1.1 was small in size (.exe)

Version: Evaluation Version 1.1
Date: November 12, 1997
Size: 997 KB

[Corey]

Hee! Look at that graphic. Yes, times sure have changed. Back then the market was completely different. Here's what it looked like when I arrived, not bad actually:
http://web.archive.org/web/200108011...com/index.html

And I think this is the first archive where I had a chance to put up a new site:
http://web.archive.org/web/200206110...site/index.php

Pretty cool archive. I have to give Colin mad props for being online since 1997. I don't know any other business person who was operating online in 1997. 1998 seems to be when the very first wave in Edmonton got online.

[Intrigued]

I was checking and I see you guys did another change in the middle fo '03. Nice!