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One sort of interesting note:

sometime between May 6, 1999 and Oct. 9, 1999, WebCrawler stopped pitching the Netscape Now! and Microsoft Internet Explorer buttons at the bottom of the page.

an interesting milestone, to say the least

1996 WebCrawler

I have NO idea how that space got in there...

--
Callas

I remember when webcrawler was the only search engine I touched...

In 1996 it was nice and simple. Then as the time went on it got a bit too cluttered for my liking. Now looks like they're trying to googlize themselves with the current interface.

I remember when webcrawler was the only search engine I touched...

In 1996 it was nice and simple. Then as the time went on it got a bit too cluttered for my liking. Now looks like they're trying to googlize themselves with the current interface.

I remember when webcrawler was the only search engine I touched...

In 1996 it was nice and simple. Then as the time went on it got a bit too cluttered for my liking. Now looks like they're trying to googlize themselves with the current interface.

I believe they get a lot of money/support from Alexa. They have some dedicated lines to Alexa which Alexa uses to send their internet crawls to Archive.org (which are shown on Archive.org after a six month or so delay). They also team up with the Library of Congress (at least for all the September 11th crawls).

I think they can handle the storage space. They already have over half a petabyte. They bandwidth, however, might be a problem since they are maxing out their .5 gig/second line. All the Grateful Dead tapes are clogging their bandwidth.

Archive.org is a very worthy project. I am going to make my donation once I get my finances in order (aka, decide how much money I have to give and how exactly it will be divided up).

I believe they get a lot of money/support from Alexa. They have some dedicated lines to Alexa which Alexa uses to send their internet crawls to Archive.org (which are shown on Archive.org after a six month or so delay). They also team up with the Library of Congress (at least for all the September 11th crawls).

I think they can handle the storage space. They already have over half a petabyte. They bandwidth, however, might be a problem since they are maxing out their .5 gig/second line. All the Grateful Dead tapes are clogging their bandwidth.

Archive.org is a very worthy project. I am going to make my donation once I get my finances in order (aka, decide how much money I have to give and how exactly it will be divided up).

It seems slashdot readers "get" the idea of free software, why is it hard to understand that the same ideas exist in the music community?

Instead, I'd like to see some productive discussions of those artists that allow their music to be freely traded.

Linkage: (there just has to be some music you can enjoy at one of the following)
Live Music Archive
Furthurnet Band List
Etree BitTorrent Downloads

Remember? Back before they became one of the first casualties of the IP blitzkreig? Ahh, the good old days.

Well, you're right. I do the same thing you do: "Lyrics" + words + Google = you found the song. HOWEVER. You're screwed if the song you're looking for has no lyrics. "Walk, Don't Run" by The Ventures? "Green Onions" by Booker T. & The MG's? "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck? Even the article's example of "Moonlight Sonata" by Ludwig Von Beethoven? Sorry, no help from Google.

(Not to mention what happens when the song has lyrics, but you can't understand anything the singer sings.)

Anyway, this service is a nifty trick...as long as you can invoke it while listening to the song.

Wake me when you can hum it and get the right answer.

And now you can go back to tape. Real tape.

The parent company, Beyond International, has long since spread its roots into lots of other drama and documentary series.

There was a spinoff website that was going strong a couple of years later, rather good content actually. It even had lots of video clips from the twenty years of the show, back to when it was called Towards 2000 on the public broadcaster. But even that died a year ago -- nominative determinism, anyone?

I've still got my first-of-a-kind Beyond 2000 Smartcard from the days when the show was a touring exhibition in the late 80s.

CK.

...for a link who's purpose is screenshots. I think we need a good image cacher, Like The Way Back Machine only a little more up to date.

And here are the Way Back When Machine's results for a9.com.

And here are the Way Back When Machine's results for a9.com.

The parent links to the wrong joke. The offending one is about the shootings at Columbine. Columbine Joke

I am sure that people by now have seen the interview on the daily show. :D too funny.

Seems they just picked a date so they could say today is the tenth aniversary.

The issue is, I do not really see where some peoples' complaints against major advertising companies lie, as it seems apparent to me that the softwares' privacy policy has always been available to the end-user.

Hey Vex, I got a bridge that I assure you I have the rights* to sell. (*rights subject to change) Wanna buy it?

Privacy policies don't mean anything - they've never proven to be very enforceable in the first place and they all have nifty little disclaimers which make them meaningless:
WhenU.com may update privacy statements for the SaveNow software at any time.

and a look at the Wayback machine reveals they've updated their privacy policy at least eleven times. In the past they had neat stuff like this:

WhenU.com may collect user information such as gender, age and zip code to compile anonymous trend information about Internet and WhenU.com usage patterns. WhenU.com compiles statistics by aggregating information across large numbers of users. These statistics may be provided to third parties.

At any time WhenU could easily modify their privacy policy to give them any kind of rights. So they lay down a "user friendly" policy when they need to have a nice face or snow-job users, and then later, they modify the policy and start raping and pillaging their users' privacy and it's perfectly legal.

Apple may change, suspend or discontinue any (or all) aspects of iTools at any time, including the availability of any iTools feature or content. Apple may also impose limits on the use of or access to certain features or portions of iTools, including a charge for or imposition of a subscription or other fee for use of iTools or any part or feature of iTools, or restrict your access to any part or all of iTools, in all cases without notice or liability.

If you were right, the Wayback machine would be controlling the internet. Meanwhile, it seems that few (out-of-slashdot) people even know it exists.

And for those who don't remember smart tags, here's an amusing writeup which hammers the point home, courtesy of ye olde archive.

Until now? RealBasic has been around since 1998!

Excepting of course all of the films available at the Internet Archive such as the The Night Of The Living Dead

Excepting of course all of the films available at the Internet Archive such as the The Night Of The Living Dead

It's time to show how ridiculous the Neo-Puritan position is in the twentyfirst century.
Watch, mirror, broadcast and create parodies such as Come Join the Fun!.

I doubt they owned it all this time.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/gmail.com

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but Princeton University has had this shape searching technology for quite a while and Purdue seems to capitalizing on it, but here's Princeton's and here's mine Scar Strangled Banter

404 Not Found The requested URL /search/cgi-bin/qsearch.py was not found on this server.

Did you use the link in the grand-grandparent post? It still works for me. The form tag used there is:

<FORM method=GET action="http://www.google.com/search">

which is current.

With a hard drive case made of LEGOs and under a dozen computers google managed to become the world's most powerful search tool.

That, and funding from the NSF, NASA & DARPA, which I imagine helps a bit.

(From About Google, according to Archive's cache of google.stanford.edu)

No matter, their technology is damn impressive, and they seem to always keep improving. Google!

Fortunately the content is old enough that it's available through the Internet Archive

Courtesy of the Wayback machine.

... or did anyone else check out slashdot's archives just as soon as they got done looking at google? takes me back to the days of innocence - when I was playing football in high school and had no fucking clue as to what slashdot was, nor how much time i'd end up spending (wasting?) on it...

I think it's great to see how so many sites we regard as the high standard for information and entertainment now all got their starts - as small, underappreciated dreams of a few people that they kept alive through hard work, dilligence (and a healthy dose of luck along the way).

but have you seen this one of Sergey Brin (co-founder)?

Nice Speedos
And people want to buy this guy's stock?
And you can get the whole shebang here: Sergey Brin's Stanford Homepage

Nice Speedos
And people want to buy this guy's stock?
And you can get the whole shebang here: Sergey Brin's Stanford Homepage

Nice Speedos
And people want to buy this guy's stock?
And you can get the whole shebang here: Sergey Brin's Stanford Homepage

Or...even more original from 1998

Yikes! And there are even older versions of that page on file check out the logo on this one: http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040303/http://g oogle.stanford.edu/

Anyone else see this picture of Sergey in a speed-o? Here is another one of him IN DRAG. I kid you not!

Anyone else see this picture of Sergey in a speed-o? Here is another one of him IN DRAG. I kid you not!

Hmmm pictures of old computers mildly interesting

Archive.org full text search very very interesting, having to know the URL in advance was a real limitation on the service!

Here.

It seems it was started as a project at Stanford, and took off from there, here's a link to an archive of the old site.

Is that a PowerPC logo I see on one of their servers?

27 cups has been proven to be safe...

2001 Coffee-Thon

-Rick

April Fool's joke or not, gmail.com has previously been an email hosting service according to the wayback machine (click on the dropdown menu and it's also one of the options).

That doesn't mean google registered it in 1995. Take a look at the wayback machine, there have been pages there in the past. Particularly a webmail provider in 96.

Also, searching the web (using google of course) turns up lots of pervious remnents.

Here it is for sale. This is probably who google bought it from - umm, probably last week (but who knows).

wayback has some listings for gmail.com, but it's been blocked with a Robots.txt. I wonder what the history of the gmail.com domain is and if someone made some cash selling it to google?

Robots.txt Retrieval Exclusion.

We're sorry, access to http://www.gmail.com/main.htm has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.

I wrote a similar browser add-on in 1996. It won some awards. Here's an early page about the project:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961223200819/http://s martbrowser.com/

-Matt Jensen
Seattle