[LINK] The Internet Archive

[Sandra Henderson]

The Internet Archive site is at http://web.archive.org/
Current featured collections are the Sept 11 archive (mainly sites archived
by the Library of Congress, and totalling 5 terabytes ), archives relating
to last year's US presidential elections, US govt, and a collection of sites
which are regarded as key historic web sites, mainly from 1996/7.

Sandra Henderson
Manager, Research,
Coordination Support Branch
National Library of Australia
ph: 02 6262 1481
fax: 02 6273 2545
email: shenders@nla.gov.au


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> From: 	Tony Barry[SMTP:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au]
> Sent: 	Friday, October 26, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: 	link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: 	[LINK] The Internet Archive
> 
> http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000085039oct25.story
> 
> >The Internet Archive, informally called the Wayback Machine, holds 
> >more than 10 billion Web pages dating to 1996, including millions 
> >that had vanished as dot-coms collapsed, big companies scaled back 
> >or updated their offerings, and hobbyist Webmasters lost interest. 
> >Researchers and academics have likened Kahle to a modern-day Andrew 
> >Carnegie, the steel baron who endowed many of the nation's finest 
> >libraries.
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> mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
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