Re: [MV] Bob has the means and knows his stuff!

From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 08:47:17 PDT


Totally awsome! Neat to see the old website lives on.

Rick

--- chance wolf <chance_wolf@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adams-Graf, John"
> <John.Adams-Graf@fwpubs.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Bob has the means and knows his
> stuff!
>
>
> > The Web, though loaded with wonderful information,
> has not provided the
> means
> > (like the Library of Congress), for recording
> information for posterity.
>
> www.webarchive.org
>
> It's no LOC, but it has crawled the web for years
> now and has archived an
> untold number of useful sites which are no longer
> available to the common
> man. It also stores earlier revisions of current
> sites (where robots
> exclude permits their archiving), so you'll still
> have access to the 'old'
> information if some webmaster has flushed it in a
> recent update.
>
> The Webarchive bunch have saved my bacon quite a few
> times over the years
> when I've needed info I remembered seeing eons
> before, and in some cases
> have been able to furnish me with enough original
> material to completely
> reconstruct a couple of defunct websites as they
> were originally, and with
> all their original functionality.
>
>
>
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