The Wayback machine - an interesting poke into the past

[Chris Stromberger]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 18:04:40 -0000, "Paul Brian" <pbrian at demon.net>
wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>For no particular reason I thought people might be interested in this.
>
>The same people who brought us Alexa and WAIS, have been archiving as much
>of the web as they could spider for years. Now they have set up a web farm
>to let us all browse our pre-history.
>
>For example, the python.org home page from january 1997.
>http://web.archive.org/web/19970414030137/http://python.via.ecp.fr/
>
>The logo has not changed a bit :-)
>Amazingly enough most of the links work too. I found an article by Frank
>Williamson with some funny quotes just a click away.
>
>Actually there are some interesting debates being brought up by this, from
>defamation postings suddenly being resurrected, to people trying to forget
>embarrassing statements, that come back to haunt.
>
>but really its just for fun...
>
>----------
>Paul Brian
>
>

Very cool!  Thanks for the link.