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[-Sky-]

What is all THIS about? Are you serious? Damn, I'm glad I came over at a very later date, that is bad...although, look at Invision Power Services...they sucked back in the old years.

[Soviet Rathe]

um....
what is that website?

[-Sky-]

I don't know, but it has alot of websites history. I love it. Somewhere in the link I gave above Trap used a NULLED IP.Board....

[rvalkass]

I'm loving the old landing page:

http://web.archive.o...www.trap17.com/

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um....
what is that website?

The Web Archive crawls the web in the same way Google does, but saves a copy of all the pages it comes across. They then publish the history of websites online, searchable by URL, so you can see how they've changed.

[-Sky-]

Very unique I would say. But heh, those ol' IPS years where the good days of IPS

[nirmaldaniel]

Jesus Christ !!! How is this possible ?? what is the capacity of their hard disk ?? !! and this is the first time i see this !! Thanks for this information !!

[Diffusr]

-Sky-, on 09 May 2010 - 02:14 AM, said:

What is all THIS about? Are you serious? Damn, I'm glad I came over at a very later date, that is bad...although, look at Invision Power Services...they sucked back in the old years.

This is one of those useful websites that you occasionally come across. Especially useful for an internet researcher, philosopher, historian or academic. I'm amazed the same as someone else in the comments how they can do this. What type of storage are they using? I would imagine everything that they can get their hands on from solid state drives to 5inch floppies (well maybe not them but you get the idea). It must cost a fortune to run the servers and maintain the quite large database of every website and its recorded history. It seems about 150 times the work google has to do. How do they bankroll their operation? I don't see ads on that page and you don't have to subscribe to their service, so it must be an rich eccentric internet geek who had the brainwave to start recording everything that has been on the world wide web...EVER.

[Soviet Rathe]

wow, look at trap17's mywot ratings http://www.mywot.com...comment#comment

half of them say trap is a virus wtf?

[anwiii]

that's funny you mentioned that trap was blacklisted. i couldn't sign up with a cpm company because my shared ip was blacklisted haha. but that's why it's not wise to be sharing any ip if you want a good reputation.

[Quatrux]

I knew about the web archive for a long time, it's a very old project and indeed is very useful, but I think it costs a lot to upkeep it and it's not as good as it really could be, as it's a non profit project.. Usually it's slow, it usually doesn't index a lot of pages and it usually never index a lot of images.

Funny to see the history sometimes! It's fun to browse the archive with different domains.