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The Internet Archive  - http://www.archive.org  Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".  Ghost Sites  - http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml  Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.  Textfiles  - http://www.textfiles.com/  Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.  NoveltyNet  - http://www.noveltynet.org/  A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.  DevArchives  - http://www.devarchives.com  Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.  The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/  Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.  The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/  Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).  The Register: The Web as Historical Record  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/  Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."  The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?  - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/15/google_the_only_archive_well/  Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.  First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines  - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/  Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices.  Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine  - http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160061  Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date.  Google Groups  - http://groups-beta.google.com/  Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.