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Posted on 10/30/2001 12:08:36 AM PST by airedale

A lot of you will remember Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman as well as Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine. This machine would transport Peabody and Sherman to any point in time. Well it's been invented for the Internet. A project started several years ago to capture every webpage each day was started. It now has over 100 terrabytes of data and is adding something like 10 terrabytes per month. You can compare the amount of data available with the Library of Congress that has about 20 terabytes on line.

It's by no means complete. Some sites like the NY Times don't allow their bots to crawl their site. They want to be able to sell the articles down stream. With FreeRepublic you get different amounts of data when you use http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?t=22 or just http://www.freerepublic.com/ and then go to the latest posts. I've tried it out and it seems to work fine. The links still work. Right now I’m looking at a post from 5/5/99

The traffic right now is overloading their equipment so you'll get a lot of "Currently Experiencing Higher Than Expected Volume" messages. That's something they have to work on. Sometimes hitting refresh works and sometimes it doesn't

The link to the site is in source URL above and choose either link to the Wayback machine. There are also several other quick links to what they refer to as "special collections". They included 9/11/01; 2000 Election, Government websites (I suppose all the info they deleted like the locations of nuclear plants, etc. are still available here. Good thing the terrorist didn't read the same NY Times article I did. Remember not only are diamonds for ever but so is what you put on the Internet .

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