grockwel: Research Notes

Wayback Machine: Internet Archive

In my previous post I mentioned the dissappearance of NewMIC and how hard it is to find information about ghost organizations. Two places I have found that can be used to find information are:

1. Ghost Sites: Where Dead Web Sites Live On is a blog with articles on ghost sites and their history. From there you can link to Ghost Sites: The Museum of E-Failure (Dead Web Site Screenshots).
2. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine is an archive of sites. If you search for a URL like newmic.com it will give you a list of dated snapshots.

These serve different purposes. The Ghost Sites has researched articles on web phenomena (like PsychoExGirlfriend.com) that have dissappeared. The Internet Archive attempts to preserve the web as it was at various points in time.