Most folks have heard of the Wayback Machine and the Internet Library. It is a way to examine online web content by date. It has records of this site going back to 2008.
I am guessing the opportunity to consider what my content looked like in 2008 is more interesting to me than anyone else. 2008 was the date at which I purchased space through a server farm instead of hosting content on a server I operated through the university where I worked.
I just learned that other content stored by the Internet Archives are now being made available. The Internet Archive has a vast store of historical content and has been limited in lending this content in the same way your local library is limited in lending digital content to users. The library purchases a certain number of subscriptions for a given book and this number limits the number of users who can have access at any given time. The National Emergency Library is a no user limited version of the Internet Archive. I have access to several libraries because I spend time in several locations and these libraries have also been allowed to relax their lending limits. Looking at historical magazines and books could make an interesting history activity for educators.
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