If you’re looking for a Web resource with a deep collection
of cultural riches that are both eclectic, enlightening and free, you may want
to visit the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/).
Beneficiaries of the institutional support of the National
Science Foundation, the Library of Congress and the Prelinger Archives as well
as the support of thousands of individuals; the Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and
cultural artifacts. The overall collection is comprised of approximately three
million texts, over one million audio recordings (including 93,000 downloadable
live music concerts) and nearly 600,000 movies/videos.
One of the more intriguing aspects of this resource is the Wayback Machine, containing 2 petabytes
of archived websites reaching back across the entire history of the Internet.
Unlike other search engines, the Wayback
Machine requires you to enter the URL of the page you’re trying to find.
For instance, typing www.newyorktimes.com
into the search box will retrieve a “chronological map” allowing you access to
an accurate snapshot of the website for a specific date of your choosing. This
puts another powerful research tool at your disposal when you need to retrieve
information from websites that change with great rapidity.
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