web.archive.org

[Jonny69]

How does this site work then? It's the one where you can put in a website and it will bring back all the historical pages from that URL. Where is it all stored and how does it find historical images that aren't on the servers any more? How does it know a site has been changed? I remember once I used it and the page that came back was a bare html shell with no images. Now it's got 90% of the old images on it.

Edjumacate me

 

[Tefal]

Hax

 

[Anewbe4u]

Hax

Haha

 

[Zogger]

It uses a crawling bot to periodically crawl all of the websites in its database and download the lot. It's easy enough to tell if somethings changed when it's all stored on your system...

 

[Biohazard]

Hax

rofl!

I don't know why I find such silly jokes funny sometimes!

 

[RobH]

OcUK back in the day: http://web.archive.org/web/20000707004832/http://www.overclockers.co.uk/

£112.95 (ex vat) for a 15gb hard drive: http://web.archive.org/web/20000621...log/online_catalogue_hard_disk_drives_14.html

£90.80 (ex VAT) for a 128MB DIMM http://web.archive.org/web/20000621...co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Memory_8.html

 

[Berserker]

Bargains!!!

Yup, does much the same as Google, but Google stores less content. I don't even want to know how much disk space they have - petabytes I'm sure, and if it's not getting close to an exabyte yet, I suspect it soon will be.

Edit - claimed 2 petabytes but I suspect that's slightly out of date. The exabyte is a way off then but I'm sure they're working on it.

 

[Fourstar]

£112.95 (ex VAT) for a 15GB Hard Drive: http://web.archive.org/web/20000621...log/Online_Catalogue_Hard_Disk_Drives_14.html

The infamous Deathstars no less!

One of mine died and the other I only dared use as a backup drive afterwards. Still sitting in an old PC and works to this day. Well sits there turned off for months on end anyway

 

[Dunks]

Edit - claimed 2 petabytes but I suspect that's slightly out of date. The exabyte is a way off then but I'm sure they're working on it.

Just a tad