Did you ever try to remember something you saw online but can't find it anymore? Maybe it's a company that you know has long since gone bust, but there was something on their website that you need to find. Or maybe there is a picture or other information that was once on your company's website that you need to retreive.

 

 

Since 1996, the Internet Archive has been collecting pages from hundreds of thousands, no, make that millions, of websites, taking frequent "snapshots" of the World Wide Web. They are doing this to preserve our cultural history, but the practical benefits are obvious as well.Check out the Wayback Machine and see what you can find. It might bring back some memories.

 

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and is working to provide specialized services relating to training, education, or adaptive reading or information access needs of blind or other persons with disabilities.

--From the About page of The Internet Archive