Re: All of the WWW Available **Forever**

[Edward Cherlin <cherlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

 ____Textpert Alert____ <ianf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  True to my name handle, I'd like to alert y'all to the truly
>  Xanadudlian mission of the start-up Internet Archive and Alexa
>  companies, the former a non-profit effort to continuously
>
>      s t o r e  ALL OF (unrestricted-access) WWW pages FOREVER ;
>
>  the second a commercial outfit developing tools to browse and
>  reuse such cumulative/ multi-generation archive contents.
[snip]
>Based on Paul Bissex' article at:
>______________________________________________
>http://webreview.com/97/05/09/edge/index2.html
>
[snip]

Sounds like this might be a good time to propose a new URL scheme,
something like

transclude:[URL]:[date]:[segment(s)]

which would automatically go to this archive or to Deja News, as
appropriate. I have made the suggestion to the IETF, and will find out how
to start the process, if y'all like.

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