After the summer break, I return to this blog to tell the curious things I discover there.
This time I want to show an incredible project of its scale, and surprisingly little known or, at least, I hardly hear of it: The Wayback Machine .
was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996 , and the purpose is to save snapshots of the entire Internet in an instant of time. It takes more than ten years saving web pages, as could be found along the entire time. Now it contains about 2 petabytes of data.
We see, for example, pages from Apple or Microsoft of 10 years ago, and feel in the past for a moment. This is, for example, preserved the first page of the online edition of newspaper El Pais: September 18, 2004 .
And this is the first page of Google stored in the file, was the November 11, 1998 and the page was still stored on the website of Stanford University.
The best part is that the links work, is like a trip back in time where you travel from page to page, seeing what he had seen then.
pages served with some delay. Now available online since 1996 until July 2007.
I discovered by accident several years ago, and have used it occasionally to retrieve material has been removed and the web.
Another interesting use is to bypass some filters that some companies provide for employee access to certain websites. Just go back and check that page a few months ago in The Wayback Machine : web.archive.org to begin, the filter is usually not blocked.
Today I discovered that my blogs have gone down to posterity. Since last June, can be found in the archive. So whatever happens with my page, they can always be consulted my nonsense on the Internet archive:
Engineering Ideas
you know that ...
Seek your own pages. And beware, you might as you to write in a web page is engraved forever and never being deleted.
(Well, not so bad, any time you can ask that you delete the file, its policy is to always have access to these requests.)
