[thelist] Finding Past Version of a Website

[Brian W. Reaves]

Try this: http://archive.org/

This is pretty kewl, you can see what sites like Yahoo looked like years 
ago.

Tony Grimes wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Is there any way to find the past version of a website? A client referenced
> a third party conference website as a perfect example of the kind of site
> they had in mind for our project. Unfortunately, the conference was last
> month and all that's left is a summary. Is there any way to get a copy of
> the site before it changed?
> 
> I've tried Google's cache, but they've already re-indexed the site. I
> remember reading about Internet archive projects that try to archive past
> versions of the Web, but I can't find any for the life of me. Does anyone
> have any ideas, short of asking the webmaster for a copy (which I might do)?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Tony
>