Newsletter ArchiveSUBJECT:Wayback Machine The Internet 800 Directory - http://www.inter800.com The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter This issue is for Friday, October 22, 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 01. Wayback Machine 02. Tip Of The Week --------------------------------------------------------------------- *01 Wayback Machine Welcome to the Internet 800 Directory Newsletter. This week I want to review a tool that I brought to your attention a couple of years back. This tool is a site that I think you will find very helpful in finding information on the Internet. The Internet has now been a part of our life for several years. Unlike books, the Internet can, and does, change. Sometimes pages or entire sites containing this useful information have been deleted from the Internet. Nothing is worse than clicking on a bookmark and getting that dreaded "404 - page not found". This is exactly were the Wayback Machine can help. Starting in 1996, The Internet Archive, working with Alexa Internet, created the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to search more than 100 terabytes of data stored in the Internet Archive's web archive. This amount of information eclipses the total of data contained in the world's largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. This is the elephant's graveyard for web pages; you can find deleted pages or go back in Internet time and see sites as they were years ago. Alexa Internet has been crawling the web since 1996 for the Wayback Machine, which has resulted in this massive archive. If you have a web site, and you would like to ensure that it is saved for posterity in the Alexa Archive, visit the Alexa "Archive Your Site" page at http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site. If you want your site removed, update your robots.txt file to disallow ia_archiver. Alexa's crawlers will read this and will make its way into the Wayback Machine and mark all previously archived pages inaccessible. To use the Wayback Machine visit: http://www.archive.org Next type in (or paste) the url of the missing or changed web page. Then click "Take Me Back" Try it with http://inter800.com and you can see how our site looked back in 1996. If you are using Foxfire, visit http://www.meatme.net/publish/ and add the Wayback extension. Then you can right click on a link and the browser will perform a search for that address in the Wayback Machine. Chuck Arning chuck@inter800.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Credit card, debit cards, and check acceptance - for all types of businesses including retail storefronts, restaurants, hotels, service companies, wireless merchants and mail, telephone or Internet order businesses. Call 888-882-3430 for a comprehensive line of payment options for your business. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Week With Microsoft Office applications you can design documents, from calendars and packing slips to birthday cards. Office applications come with some built-in templates and Wizards, which can really save design time. The Microsoft Office Template Gallery online is a great resource for finding additional templates that you can use for your next project. http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/templategallery/ If you have any tips or shortcuts that you think the readers of this Newsletter will find useful, send them to chuck@inter800.com Banners? Pay-per-click? Why not target your market with links or information placed in relevant content? The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter offers direct access to business people who are interested buyers. Advertising: Information on how to sponsor this publication: Call 800-299-1879 Thanks for taking the time to review our newsletter for this week. If you know of anyone that might benefit from receiving this newsletter, send them to (http://www.inter800.com/news800/ ) where they can subscribe. All Contents Copyright ©1995-2003 The Internet 800 Directory Subscribe To The Newsletter: |