Wayback Machine

I consider myself a expert user of the internet but for some reason I had never heard of a company called the Internet Archive. Internet Archive specializes in archiving websites and has a tool that allow you to view these archived pages -- Wayback Machine. Archived websites go back as far as 1996 and the company claims to have over 50 billion web pages archived. You can use the Wayback Machine to go back in time, I used it to view my first website and my friends websites (apparently blogs aren't archived). If the website pages weren't indexed correctly with a website was created they may not have been archived but for most sites there is at least some text. Don't expect miracles from the wayback machine, the website is slow (you may have to visit the site later if you get the "page cannot be displayed error"). Using the Wayback Machine is very straightforward: visit the website and type in the website you would like to view. You will be shown the search results for your particular website, categorized by year. The dates in the bottom row indicate when a snapshot was taken from the website (homepage only).