Day 5 in the 30 in 30 series is going back in time....well, kind of. If you are like me you use the Internet as a resource daily. And if you are like most teachers, just when you need it the most the site that you planned on using for your best lesson of the year will likely not work. Luckily for you, you have the ability to travel back in time and find the site in working order. Not just an image of the site, but a complete working site with fully functioning links. I know...pretty cool, right? The ability to do this is done at the
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Just type in the site that you want and you will be directed to a timeline of when it has was indexed. The more popular a site, the more times that it will be indexed. I must say, if you don't watch the clock this site can be a time waster. At times I find myself looking at the history of a site.....looking at how web design has changed over the years. From hand coding a page line by line to using WYSIWYG software like Macromedia's Dreamweaver to now just logging in to a website like Weebly to design and publish a website......from the web. How times have changed. If you are wondering where to start, try looking up your school district's page. How about Google (
beta version circa 1998) or
Facebook from 2005. Back when it was
Mark Zukerburg's start-up and he was looking for a few employees. I wonder if they are still looking for a
customer support manager?
Click Here if you want to see the video on how to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
** Sites that use SSL or that start with https:// will only give you the login page. You won't be able to access secure sites in an archived form. **
On a side note,
The Internet Archive is more than just the
Wayback Machine. According to
Wikipedia, The Internet Archive "provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including web sites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books."
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