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Accessing the History of the Web: A Web Way-Back Machine

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Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing (SC 2000, OHS 2000)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 1903))

Abstract

One of the deficiencies of the World Wide Web is that the Web does not have a memory. Web resources always display one revision only, namely the latest one. In addition, once a Web resource moves from one location (i.e., URL) to another, the resource at the original location ceases to exist.

Since the Web does not provide a mechanism to allow access to the revision history of resources, services like the Internet Archive have sprung into action to collect the history of important Web resources. The Web way-back machine described here, currently under development by the author, utilizes collections of historical Web resources like the ones provided by the Internet Archive to allow online, read-only access to the revisioned resources.

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  1. Irvine Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92627-3425, USA

    Joachim Feise

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Feise, J. (2000). Accessing the History of the Web: A Web Way-Back Machine. In: Open Hypermedia Systems and Structural Computing. SC OHS 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39941-0_6

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