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Wayback Machine
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During Karen\u2019s 10 Minutes of Fame presentation, she expressed the need for copying down website\/pages because they may become inactive or disappear.\u00a0 The Wayback Machine popped into my mind as a solution to that.\u00a0 The Wayback Machine was introduced to me by a classmate when one of our assigned readings was a dead link.<\/p>\n

Background Information
\nThe Way Back Machine is a free service provided by a non-profit organization call the Internet Archive, whose main purpose is to build an \u201cinternet library\u201d, which for them is collecting and archiving everything on the internet.\u00a0 Their rationale for such archive is to preserve society\u2019s digital cultural artifacts for educational and historical uses, and boast collaborations with the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institution.\u00a0 Whether the information is truly used for educational mean is up for discussion, especially with the discovery of the NSA tracking personal communications on American based websites (The Internet Archive is based in San Francisco).<\/p>\n

How It Works
\nThe Wayback Machine is able to display websites and pages snapshots from a static point in time.\u00a0 Using crawlers, which are programs that spread through the internet jumping from website to website via links and pages, the Wayback Machine records each website it passes through (This is the same process that search engines collect information on websites to be used in their searches).\u00a0 To use the machine, you input a website in the search box, and if the Wayback Machine has it in its records, the results will show a calendar of the various dates and times the website was crawled and hence archived.\u00a0 At the top, it shows the number of times the website has been crawled in a bar graph form from 1996 (the start of the internet) to now; as well as, the date of the first archive entry.\u00a0 By clicking on the coloured circles on the calendar the user may visit different historical versions of the same website at each time it was crawled by the machine.\u00a0 Changing archive years, is done by moving the mouse over to the bar graph at the top of the page and clicking the number for the corresponding year.
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\nAn example of the Wayback Machine’s archive of Weebly.<\/p>\n

Things to Consider<\/p>\n