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Twenty-five years ago - October 1996. The Internet Archive (Archive.org) starts its eternal world-wide crawl.

The Wayback Machine's First Crawl 1996 : Internet Archive : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In October of 1996, engineers at the the San Francisco-based Internet Archive launched their first web crawlers, taking snapshots of web pages. At the time,...
archive.org

Whatever happens on the 'net, stays on the 'net. Delete some files? As Dante wrote: "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate!"

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The days of Mosaic.
 
I used to have that hanging over my classroom door.
 
I'm still bitter over the unscrupulous practices of our first "provider". We requested he register our URL/domain name for us, he registered it under HIS name, unknown to us at the time. This was in the days of dial-up, he'd had a T-1 line run to his garage and also hosted our site as well as others he'd done the same with. At some point in '96~'97 he just disappeared, no more 'net access, no website access... now our domain name is owned (and of course for sale) by some off-shore entity in Jamaica, AFAIK, along with some others. "Good Faith" agreements are no longer part of my paradigm. :mad:
 
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