3.+The+Internet+Archive

(Courtesy of [|Jay Ward Productions] .)

How many of us remember Peabody and his //pet boy// Sherman? Yes, the 1960's cartoon show (at times a segment of the Rocky and his Friends and the Bullwinkle shows). The scholarly Peabody would take Sherman on trips back in history in the Wayback Machine. The WayBack machine returned inside the wonderful Internet Archive - http://archive.org This wonderful resource stands alone! You note that we have separated it from all of the other great search alternatives. It is a life-saver. It is the grandest archive in history with **150 billion web pages** and growing, more than a million digitized books, countless audio/video files and more! >  Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

> //... from http://archive.org // Have you ever started a semester only to find that one or more of the important hyperlinks in your syllabus have disappeared (or rotted out)? This can be especially frustrating. The Internet Archive may well have a copy - just as the archive in a library may preserve materials. You can resurrect items from the Web that disappeared last week, last month, or last decade! Here's an overview of the Internet Archive (no need to pay attention to the bits of "tech-talk" in the video - it's the overall substance that is important):

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And, now a closer look at the Wayback Machine. Below is a brief video of the Wayback Machine - no audio in this video - but, check it out to see how you can go to Google back in 1998 and do a search on the dozen-year old Google!

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Check out some of the other Internet Archive resources linked below. Then try out a Wayback search. Go to a site you have followed over the years - your homepage, a government page, or your department page and see how it has changed over the years. Perhaps, try out some of the search engine sites or the Sloan-C site. Go to the Internet Archive **http://archive.org** and enter the url of the site in the Wayback text box.

The Internet Archive also has many other tools, including:
 * eBooks & Texts
 * Movies & Videos
 * Audio