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• - Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
  
• - A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
  
• - Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
  
• - Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
  
• - 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.
  
• - Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.
  
• - Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
  
• - Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
  
• - Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
  
• - 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.