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Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 1:03 am
by Moka
There's a really cool website out there called the "Wayback Machine". Its a website where you can view websites as they were years and years ago. The website started "crawling" websites (getting information and archiving them) back in 1996. It's interesting to see websites like Yahoo and how they were long ago. But, I found out that the Wayback machine has even archived sites like http://www.lionking.org! The longest running, biggest and bestest Lion King website looks a lot different when viewed back in 1996!

Check it out:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://lionking.org

To view another website just enter the web address in that field :]

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 1:11 am
by NightmareMoon
Wow this is really interesting. =D Nice find.

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 2:11 am
by Mike
lol, that probably has some pretty compromising, embarrassing stuff in it ;P

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 2:15 am
by Panda-chan
Nice find Moka! This website is so cool! :)
lionking.org looks so wrong :ehh2: *shudders*

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 2:33 am
by morri908
sooo.. how long till MLK gets a spot on there? lol

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 2:55 am
by Moka
I thought it would have one already, but I guess not. Too bad :/

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 5th, 2009, 10:48 pm
by Panda-chan
Just wait. In time it will, you'll see. :evil:

I think it only stores the more "popular" sites... >.>

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 6th, 2009, 12:40 am
by Mike
pssh, this is the best TLK site out there =)

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: June 8th, 2009, 6:38 am
by NightmareMoon
Nah I searched the olllllld Knight Online website and that was there... gosh it looks SOOO different. I think the website has to be pretty old in order for it to show up there.. not sure about that though.

Also I think the site still has to be running when you look at it because I tried some sites that are down now and they didn't work but the ones that are still online work. Just an observation I had but I could be wrong, seeing as I didn't spend much time with this.

Re: Internet Archive Wayback Machine

PostPosted: November 2nd, 2009, 12:03 am
by Moka
I forgot that MLK had another host from 07-08ish. Around that time it was reachable by going to http://moka.awardspace.com

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://moka.awardspace.com

Check out MLK in 2007! Does it bring back any memories to those that were around at the time? Too bad some of the images are broken.