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Accessing the History of the Web: A Web Way-Back Machine

Joachim FeiseContact Information

(4)  Irvine Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92627-3425, USA
Abstract
One of the deficiencies of the World Wide Web is that the Web does not have a memory. Web resources always display one revision only, namely the latest one. In addition, once a Web resource moves from one location (i.e., URL) to another, the resource at the original location ceases to exist.
Since the Web does not provide a mechanism to allow access to the revision history of resources, services like the Internet Archive have sprung into action to collect the history of important Web resources. The Web way-back machine described here, currently under development by the author, utilizes collections of historical Web resources like the ones provided by the Internet Archive to allow online, read-only access to the revisioned resources.

Contact Information Joachim Feise
Email: jfeise@ics.uci.edu
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