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WEB TIME WASTERS
The WayBackMachine
By Andrew Gould 10 July 2008 | Categories: web time wastersWe are probably not much closer now, than we were 3000 years ago, at making a time machine.
If however, you want to go back to 1996, you’re in luck. The WayBackMachine (www.archive.org) is a collection of 85 billion web pages from 1996 to a few months ago. You can go to any address you like and then go to the date you want to see, and you’ll see what that page looked on that date.
On 11 November 1998 a website called Google had this as its landing page: “Welcome to Google…Google Search Engine Prototype… Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.”
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