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Way Back Machine is WAY out of Date

So I need to make a correction…The RackSpace design critique I posted recently is now out of date.  The design I ripped has been replaced by a much better design.

Blogs and web links in general do not always do a good job from a “historical accuracy” perspective because the pages you link to often change.  For years I have used the WAY BACK machine at Archive.org as a standing record for website content revisions.  I planned to use it to update the Rackspace post (past, current versions), but was alarmed to see the records now stop at July 2005.

I hope this is not a sign of things to come, because the web needs a service like this…lawyers use it for copyright dispute resolution…but I have a bad feeling that it might be the begining of the end for the WAY back machine.


 

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Jul 20/06
12:01 pm
Laura S says:

Wow – was just at Archive.org on MONDAY looking at a NY Times page from 2001. It’s such a useful resource… I hope this isn’t permanent!

Laura


 

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