site- The Wayback Machine

Henry, this is for you...

Every time I try to remember this site, I ask Henry. I finally decided to post it here so I could find it. Truth be told, That's why I started this blog in the first place, so somebody else (blogger) could keep track of all my miscellaneous ramblings.

Anyway, the Internet Archive is a pretty amazing tool. I first used it just as a curiosity- checking my old sites, and I found some pretty funny reminders of why you should hire a website designer... but I also found some photos that I had up, a long time ago, that I'd completely forgotten. Just in case you think you own the life of your images...

A journalist friend of mine has used it for years to check backgrounds and uncover scams. That, certainly, is where it gets interesting. I was checking into a site that, the more I looked at it, the fishier it seemed. Checked them out on the Wayback Machine, and what do you know... in 1997 the site was just about the cheesiest porn site you'd care to see, if that's what you like to see. (Does the name "Awesome 3-D" ring any bells?) Pretty much shot this guy's creds full of holes, from where I sit...

Anyway, take a look, and have some fun. The Internets has spawned, among a lot of other things, a wave of the biggest sleazeballs the world has to offer, but it's nice to know they still leave their own characteristic sleazy trail...

Oh, and by the way, there's also whois.net. Want to know who owns a site? Put the domain name into whois.com and you'll see all the public information available. If you have a domain name registered and having your address out there for all to see bothers you, you need to request, and generally pay for, a Privacy feature.

The Wayback Machine, here, and WhoIs.net, here.