The old internet is still there!

I’ve just had an experience which can only be likened to discovering an old box of family photographs up in the loft which for years had been believed lost.

I was reading through the blogs after manually transferring feeds from NetNewsWire Lite’s OPL file (at work) into Opera 7.5 ( home) when I came across yet another furl advocate who mentioned in passing the web archive. This is something which I’ve imagined, but never knew actually existed and it blew me away. I found old archived copies of my own websites from the last century, some early stuff of Frankie Roberto’s and best of all – a page of collaborative links which I’d build up on a free online bookmarking system but then became defunct.

So I’ve been taking an enjoyable trip down memory lane and carefully Furling everything as I go. I still can’t really believe it, because this changes the way I have to think about the web from now on – it is less ephemeral than I thought.

Furl
My Furl
Wayback Machine
Passing Notes
Weblogg-ed