Have you ever found an old website with the Wayback Machine or played the 1990 version of Oregon Trail in your browser? If you have, you've used the services of the Internet Archive, which Brewster Kahle founded in 1996 and which has captured and preserved over 366 billion websites since then. Here's a shot of the home page for William & Mary in 1997:
Here in Special Collections, we began a web archiving program this past July. We are using Archive-It, a service of the Internet Archive, to capture and preserve websites that align with the collecting priorities and duties of both Special Collections and University Archives.
Our web archiving efforts support the records management and university history functions of University Archives, while also enabling Special Collections to acquire material published on the web that enhances its manuscript collections.
Please browse our growing collections and let us know in the comments if there are any websites you would like us to consider adding!
