

Listen carefully if you're a lawyer who represents Web development companies or Web designers.Ī way to bring Web sites back to life is also a way to bring mistakes back so they can haunt us all anew. This seems like good news for Web surfers, but it should make every lawyer wake up in a hurry. In other words, not only was I able to view all of my old site I was able to view all of my old site as it existed at various times. It did it easily, showing me the entire site as of various dates. I checked to see if the Wayback Machine would let me travel down Memory-chip Lane to my old Web site, which I took down a couple of years ago. It's an eerie experience opening pages that died and went to Web-page heaven a few years ago. Time travel is easy to do through books and movies, but it's not something most of us have done on the Web.

If it's not, try it again in another few days. The site, at, became an instant celebrity as soon as it opened last week, and all this attention made it faint under the stress, It should be back up when you read this. You'll be in the past in a few seconds.Īt least that's the way it's supposed to work.

All you do is choose a time (by month and year) and type a Web address to step into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. You can view entire Web sites, just as they were in the past. A new and totally free Internet service lets you travel back in time to view old Web sites that are no longer running. Web 'time machine' brings back old sites, mistakes and allĮver wish you could bring an old Web site back to life? Lawyers need to wake up and smell the libel suits.Īl Fasoldt's reviews and commentaries, continuously available online since 1983 A way to bring Web sites back to life is also a way to bring mistakes back so they can haunt us all anew.
