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Introducing Archive.org -- An Answer to Censorship
November 14, 2001
Sterling D. Allan
Censorship has been dealt a huge blow.
Archive.org has been backing up the entire internet month by
month since 1996; and it is all available by just typing in the URL of the given web page. They have
100+ terabytes of information, from 10 billion web pages. That's five times as much as the
Library of Congress' 20 million books minus the pictures.
In this age of censorship and websites disappearing, this service moves beyond just being an amazing
luxury; it becomes an indispensable tool for finding back-ups for valuable information.
Try it out. Type in the URL of your favorite website, and view some of the archive copies on file
there.
Here's a website that for one reason or other has been taken down (I found it through a search at
google.com)
http://www.iirg.org/natmilitia.html
(National Militia Index) [backed up here from a google
cache]
If you try that address in your browser, nothing comes up.
But now go to www.archive.org, and enter "http://www.iirg.org/natmilitia.html"
in the box, and the following page comes up
http://web.archive.org/web/20010408164245/http://www.iirg.org/natmilitia.html
And then there is that website in Florida that was exposing corruption in the judicial system, which
a judge ordered shut down. See story at:
http://www.patriotsaints.com/News/Mirrors/judicial_watchdog.htm
Their website was http://www.amoralethics.com/
Type that into your browser, and nothing comes up, because the court ruled it be taken down.
Now go to www.archive.org, type in that URL, and viola, 25
different copies backed up since 1998, the most recent being May 17:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010517005638/http://www.amoralethics.com/
There it is. "The Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and
Judges."
There you will find a list of the top ten dishonest and incompetent lawyers:
Free legal advice
Visiting Judges Filing Fraudulent Expense Claims
No wonder they shut it down. To bright.
Go have some fun.
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