Remember when we saw all the wonderful things that we could do with computers, circa 1982? Pretty cool, huh. We could balance our checkbooks and dial a number until it’s answered. (Well, nix on that last thing, right?)
Well, here’s something else that can be done, and I think it’s just about the BEST thing to do:
Keep old books alive. It’s a fascinating process.
To be able to have not only well-known information at our fingertips but more obscure information? Such as The Florida driving test no longer requires parallel parking (learning to parallel park took up my entire summer of ’63.) Or what was in your kitchen cupboards in 1925. If you wanted, you can read all about it in a 1925 book called The story of a pantry shelf thanks to a book kept “alive” by the Internet Archive.
But digitizing old books is not all the Internet Archive does. One way to use the Internet Archive that you may be familiar with, is to see what web sites used to look like. Here’s STUG’s website in 1996:
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If the Wayback Machine has you fascinated, here’s an article on how to use many of its functions. There’s also a link within that article to… more articles. Rabbit hole, coming right up. https://gijn.org/2021/05/05/tips-for-using-the-internet-archives-wayback-machine-in-your-next-investigation/
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