Nostalgia Sunday

September 14, 2008 - 8:50 PM by Rachel Neiman · 3 Comments
Filed under: General, Pop Culture

I thought it might be nice to check the Wayback Machine for a few favorite sites. For those who don’t know about this valuable resource, this is a site that crawls, aggregates and archives homepages, so that when you’re trying to figure out who was first online, The Jerusalem Post or Globes, you have an easy way to settle that argument.

So here it is: WayBack’s first record of www.jpost.co.il is from October 17, 1996. On the other hand, it’s first record of slightly better designed www.jpost.com is from December 30, 1996.

Meanwhile, Wayback’s archive for Globes first online edition dates back to November 05, 1996. However, as memory serves, “Israel’s Business Arena” – as it was called then – was up and running even before then. Oh well. The Wayback Machine is not infallible.

Some other maiden versions of popular English-language Israeli sites whose initial efforts have been consigned to the cyber-dustbins of history include Haaretz’s first online attempt, Israel Online – IOL, Dry Bones, and of course our own ISRAEL21c.

ISRAEL21c front page 2001