Internet time machine
Just a bit of a did you know about this site kinda blog post. In 1996 (which in computer time is over 9000 years) an organisation was formed with the grand goal of archiving The Internet! and since then every year they have been periodically visiting and making a copy of just about every website there is.
Its fairly geeky but how awesome is that!? I’m a huge fan of nostalia I think a lot of people are and this project was well thought out from the start. Back in 1996 the web was not the blog laden facebook frenzy beast it is today, it was still very young. Sure ‘The Internet’ had been around for a lot longer but actual websites and what we know as the world wide web only really came to life in 1994 – 1995, so to envision that ‘this interwebs shit is gonna be serious bisness’ and set about archiving it for future generations was and is an amazing idea.
The BBC Website 1997
I think this site means quite a lot to me especially as i’v been hooked on The Internet since I started using it way back in 1997. Back then it was so different to what it is now, like take facebook for example, back then you’d struggle to find anyone online in your own county nevermind town! now everyone is on facebook. If i’d of said back in 1997 to the vast majority of people who use facebook today that they’d spend hours on The Internet each day and it’d become part of their daily lives they’d of laughed in my face, but The Internet archivers knew it would take off and they knew it needed archiving.
Apple’s Website 1997
By the nature of its self The Internet is in a constant state of flux, changing and growing, sites going up sites vanishing never to seen again all this stuff presenting a current view of the world and leaving the old as not even a memory if you think about that for a second its really exciting but at the same time a bit sad. Fear not though as you can take a trip into the past by paying a visit to the internet time machine
