The other day, I was telling someone about some of my earliest Web site creation projects. And if we could see them now, how amusing we would find them to be.
But then I remembered the Wayback Machine - it's a part of the official Internet Archive. One can simply type in the URL (Web address) of the site in question and if they are lucky enough, that site was downloaded and archived at least once if not several times over a span of a couple of years.
I've been able to find some of my oldest (and funniest looking) sites. I was also shocked to find out that some of the very crudley built software I designed back in the mid-90's, is still available for download through the links on the old Web sites.
Talk about a blast from the past!
I once heard a story where a fella' was hired to redo a Web site for a company. He started right in and somehow got things so messed up that he wanted to repost the original site. Unfortunately for him, he had forgotten to make a backup of the site. Fortunately for him though, he knew about the Wayback Machine. The lucky fella' was able to go that site, type in the URL, and then download an original version of the entire site.
Reposting was easy after that!
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