Set the wayback machine...

[rickvs]

I'd visited this site before, but forgotten about it. Till I needed it to resurrect, for my portfolio, some articles I'd written ...which resided on a site that went out of business.

http://www.archive.org

...seems to be run by librarians with too much hard drive space on their hands. I was able to dig up the dead site as it existed a couple of years ago, which saved me having to dig through old CD backups of my work :>

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

In some of the web developer forums, the Wayback Machine is controversial - mostly among those who are embarrassed to see their early efforts still up there for the world to see.

Me, I love it. It makes what I do for a living feel ever-so-slightly less ephemeral, and it provides a historical record of sorts.