Topic: Wayback Machine - the Internet archive

This is awesome: http://archive.org/

Long-since dead websites, preserved for eternity! Be reminded of how terrible website design used to be!

And on a personal note - looky, my very first writing gig:

http://web.archive.org/web/20031118021716/http://gbacentral.net/

http://web.archive.org/web/20040110025200/http://www.gbacentr...

Those were the days... great handheld, great website.

Doesn't seem to load on my computer.

That sucks What browser? I'm using Chrome.

Oh snap, The Grand Adventures!

And, by golly, the official Nintendo site of my youth.

I remember that Nintendo website.

I wish I didn't.

Genesis of NintendoLife:

http://web.archive.org/web/20051203043510/http://www.nintendo...

Still finding ways to plug your articles.

I think the archive is an absolutely fantastic idea. I've actually found it useful on more than one occasion, too - after following some dead links to information I really wanted, I found it on the archive instead.

Perhaps my favourite internet archive(s) though is the Geocities archives. They take me back!

e.g. here: http://reocities.com/Hollywood/3302/

Takes me back! Web design back then consisted of throwing as many animated .gifs as you could find on a page with as many clashing colours s your monitor could possibly support. It really is great, though - 'web design' as a thing was still in its infancy, and you couldn't really get pre-made templates like you can on blogs and things these days, so people did all their own designing. Some great results came out!