Is this common knowledge? The waybackmachine at http://www.archive.org has been storing snapshots of webpages for years and years, so if you put in a web address and ‘go wayback’ you can see it as it was at various points in the past. How could it store so much information?

It’s on an Ipod attached to a Delorean on a conveyor belt.

They have a real life time machine.

How could it store so much information?

The internet didn’t have that much information back then.
Back in 1997 I downloaded the whole internet onto a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk.

Now it states 150 billion pages…I’m amazed.

Now it states 150 billion pages

and that probably excludes the ‘deep web’ that is behind logins etc that robots can’t see.

Simple enough, they don’t need storage, they’re on 56k dialup so pages they started downloading in 2007 are just completing today.

I like the way ‘The Grateful Dead’ gets its own entry under ‘Audio’.

My old geocities and netscape websites are still alive then…this will be of monumental significance one day, future generations can rejoice that all my hard work over a weekend a decade ago has been saved for posterity.

(although my attempts at prose sort of remind me of the things you read that some crazy teenage nutter who shot 20 people from a clock tower in Texas would write)

used it a few times, can be useful but as already said it’s normally only a few clicks deep into a site and downloadable content isn’t stored.

STW Forum from March 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020319002009/http://singletrackworld.com/forum/list.php?f=2&menu=14

Nice one footflaps.

Now I can waste even more time on CRC, not just on the latest offers, but investigating what they used to sell!

Sid blue Maguras anyone?
http://web.archive.org/web/200012152308/http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/categories.asp?category=brakes+hydraulic