Word-of-the-Day: Wayback Machine

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August 20, 2004 Published by  WhatIs.com Word of the Day LOOK IT UP     TECH HAPPENINGS     FAST REFERENCES     CAREERS         Issue Sponsored By:   > iSeries Programmer Tip IN THIS ISSUE:   >  Word of the Day: Wayback Machine   >  Today's Tech News   >  Brain Food   >  Additions and Updates   iSeries Programmer Tip iSeries programmers take notice. Search400.com's biweekly programmer tips offer up suggestions and advice for simplifying and improving your applications. Written by programming experts, Andrew Borts and Paul Tuohy, you'll get tried-and-true tips for developing applications. Click here to subscribe.   Wayback Machine The Wayback Machine is a Web site that enables anyone to see what a particular Web site looked like at some time in the past - from 1996 to the present. This enormous archive of the Web's past requires over 100 terabytes of storage and contains 10 billion Web pages. The archive of pages was originally gathered by the owners of the Alexa program, a toolbar you can install on your PC that provides Web site information and ratings. At the Wayback Machine site, you can search for and link to any of your favorite Web sites of the past and find them preserved very much as they were at various "snapshots" in time. For example, you can see how whatis.com looked in late 1996 and also at various times during 1997 and all the way to the present. (Occasionally, an ad that was served from another site will be missing and we noticed a few graphic images missing from our original site.) In general, however, the range and completeness of the archive is remarkable. The Wayback Machine also carries a few "special collection" features that show how Web sites responded to the tragedy on September 11, 2001; Web pages from the U.S. election of 2000; and a "Web Pioneers" collection, that features some sites that were important to the early Internet. The Wayback Machine is at http://web.archive.org. From time to time, the site's performance may be a bit slow. MORE INFO: > The Wayback Machine's Pioneers Collection includes Yahoo!, Amazon, and the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. > Here's what Whatis.com looked like on December 23, 1996 (most of these definitions have long since been rewritten). > Here's what Yahoo! looked like on December 20, 1996. CIO kicks IBM to curb Four years ago, Owens & Minor Inc. was perfectly happy with its outsourcing agreements. The Glen Allen, Va.-based Fortune 500 company, which is the country's leading supplier of medical and surgical supplies, had great relationships with IBM and Perot Systems Corp. So why did Owens & Minor CIO David Guzman rip up the contracts and have the vendors bid for his business? Brief: SAP warns of phony support calls SAP is issuing a warning to customers not to provide implementation data to telephone callers identifying themselves as SAP support staff. Microsoft tries to clear confusion over SP2 Service Pack 2 has been plagued by a reported security glitch and a list of applications that must be tweaked for compatibility. More Tech News Catch up on all the latest IT news! Secret Word of the Day This cool open source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations is made available under the LGPL/GPL licenses. What is it? Today's Trivia Question What kind of keyboard was invented by Christopher Latham Sholes in the late 1800s? Abbreviation or Acronym QOTD Serial ATA (SATA) is a standard for connecting hard drives into computer systems. What does Serial ATA stand for? a. Serial Advanced Technology Attachment b. Serial Attached Throughput Agent How many bytes for... Did you know that five megabytes could hold the complete works of Shakespeare? You'll find more tidbits like this in 'How many bytes for...,' our guide to storage in real-world terms. Learning guides and tutorials Would you like to know more about networking, wireless technology, or computer viruses? Our learning guides and tutorials offer straight-forward information on a wide variety of IT subjects. honeynet desktop search hardware prototype abfarad Contact Us Sales For sales inquiries, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Editorial For feedback about any of our articles or to send us your article ideas, please contact us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by WhatIs.com, a targeted Web site from TechTarget, the most targeted IT media and events company. Copyright 2004 TechTarget. All rights reserved. To unsubscribe from "Word of the Day": Go to unsubscribe: http://WhatIs.techtarget.com/u?track=NL-34 Please note, unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed. Contact Us: WhatIs Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494