Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:25 pm
Archive.org - Wayback Machine
For those of you not in the know, I'd like to remind you about and their wayback machine.
In essence what they do is spider the internet like google, but instead of being a search engine, they store historical copies of all the webpages they come across. This enables you to:
1. Compare a web page against a historical version of itself, to see how it has been altered, in both design and content. (This works if the old version is at least 6 months old - for a more recent comparison, use google cache).
2. Access the content for a link / website that is no longer online. For some reason, when reading information online about Scientology, broken links and dead websites seem far more common than on other subjects.
There are several ways of accessing the wayback machine:
1. Goto http://www.archive.org and enter the broken link into their form
2. Prefix http://web.archive.org/web/*/ before the url you are trying to access. For example, http://alter-is.com is no longer being hosted, so visit: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://alter-is.com (copy and paste this url rather than click)
3. Get the Resurrect Pages addon for Mozilla Firefox, it adds a button to your toolbar, and when you access a broken link, will give you options to check the page on archive.org, google cache and a few others:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
In essence what they do is spider the internet like google, but instead of being a search engine, they store historical copies of all the webpages they come across. This enables you to:
1. Compare a web page against a historical version of itself, to see how it has been altered, in both design and content. (This works if the old version is at least 6 months old - for a more recent comparison, use google cache).
2. Access the content for a link / website that is no longer online. For some reason, when reading information online about Scientology, broken links and dead websites seem far more common than on other subjects.
There are several ways of accessing the wayback machine:
1. Goto http://www.archive.org and enter the broken link into their form
2. Prefix http://web.archive.org/web/*/ before the url you are trying to access. For example, http://alter-is.com is no longer being hosted, so visit: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://alter-is.com (copy and paste this url rather than click)
3. Get the Resurrect Pages addon for Mozilla Firefox, it adds a button to your toolbar, and when you access a broken link, will give you options to check the page on archive.org, google cache and a few others:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2570
Freedom is a choice. Choose to be yourself, choose to speak your truth and do so with compassion. And above all else, choose to be not afraid. If I can't dance, its not my revolution.
