WayBack Machine

So you remember seeing an article on CNN.com a few months (or years) ago, and wish you had downloaded it?

Or perhaps your server crashed, and you had no back up of some really important text documents that would be really difficult (if even possible) to re-create?

WayBack Machine can help you out. You CAN actually go back in time on the internet with this website. They have 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. I had typed in some old websites that I had done for myself years ago, and sure enough, there they were. Most of the JPGs were gone, but still, the text was there. Also, I looked back at the coverage of Sept. 11, on CNN's website. A friend of mine, who does some website work as well, had a client come to him ( a major business, actually), to re-create their website - apparently they had never backed it up! And thru WayBack, they were able to recover most, if not all of the text, saving a tremendous amount of time and money.