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Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
http://www.archive.org

Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.shtml

Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
http://www.textfiles.com/

A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
http://www.noveltynet.org/

Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.
http://www.devarchives.com

Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/09/archive_yeahright_org/

Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/web_archive_british/

Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/web_historical_record/

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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/200...15/google_the_only_archive_well/

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.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_10/wouters/

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.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160061