# Sherman, set the Wayback Machine to the Straight Dope. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004 "2001-11-12T23:19:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/1 "2001-11-12T23:19:54Z")
Would you like to see the internet the way it once was? Well now you can. All you need is remebrance of a now-defunct or still running web site and [The Internet Archive’s](http://www.archive.org/index.html) Wayback Machine, and you can see what a web site looked like all the way back to 1996. [Here’s](http://web.archive.org/web/19970114020536/http://www.straightdope.com/) what this very site looked like in January of 1997. Cecil was wondering why the Europeans were the ones who made the great discoveries, as opposed to the Arabs. ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/2 "2001-11-12T23:59:09Z")
Thanks for the link, it’s an interesting site. Over 100 terabytes of data, including the first website for the place where I work! ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/3 "2001-11-13T19:41:11Z")
Amazing site,It even has my web page from 1998! Thanks for the link Mobo85 ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/4 "2001-11-13T20:51:18Z")
Awesome site. It only had one link to my webpage, only from 4 days ago. I’m going to have some fun with this page. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/5 "2001-11-13T20:56:52Z")
“Every dog should have a boy.” - Professor Peabody Sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/6 "2001-11-13T21:10:25Z")
There is already a thread about this here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=98757](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=98757) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherman-set-the-wayback-machine-to-the-straight-dope/93004/7 "2001-11-13T21:27:01Z")
Well, it’s not perfect – the earlier archives of my web site don’t have most of the original graphics or icons that I had back then. Though it’s definitely weird to see that they not only archived my site, but also my assortment of travel photos as well…