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ArpaNet History - The Untold History of ArpaNet.

ArpaNet Maps - Scanned maps of the network for twelve distinct periods from December 1969 to March 1977.

DevArchives - Contains archives of FAQs

First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines - Journal article by Paul Wouters

Ghost Sites - Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.

NoveltyNet - A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.

Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine - 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.

Textfiles - Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.

The Register: The Web as Historical Record - Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."

The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss - Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.

The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved - Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).

The Register: Google - Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index