Like libraries & the archive department of offices, there is a huge internet database store that archives all the electronic documents, files, audio, video files that are ever published.

The internet archive is a not-for-profit organization that receives funding for various international organizations to prepare & preserve internet files on the web. The organization also digitizes books, magazines, periodicals & newspapers. The Internet Archive operates 13 scanning centers in great libraries, digitizing 1000 books a day. As of July 2008, over 300,000 books are publicly available on the archive.org site that would not otherwise be.

To see the prior versions of any website, go to Internet Archive website & type in the name of the website & click "Take Me Back". The list of all prior versions show up, grouped by years. I searched for an extremely popular photography website & the Internet Archived listed all the different versions of the website from 1997 onwards.

You can click on any of the blue linked version to view the website as it appeared on that date (the link shows the date on which the archive copy was made).

You can look up any website by using a few free tools from Internet Archive.

• Retrieving the most recently archived copy of a specific URL type http://web.archive.org/http://<domain name> where <domain name> will be www.somedomainname.extension
• Retrieving an archived copy of a specific URL from given date http://web.archive.org/20011007203917/http://<domain name> where the number series 20011007203917 represents year (2001), month (10 for October), date (07 for 7th of the month), hour of day (20 for 8.00 PM), minute of the day (39 minutes) & seconds (17 for the 17th second)
• You can use either the year or the year & month too & the archive will show you the latest version for that period [ http://web.archive.org/2001/http://<domain name> or http://web.archive.org/200110/http://<domain name>]
• To see all archived versions for any time, use the wild card * with your search. Like http://web.archive.org/200110*/http://<domain name>
• To see all versions of websites that begin with the name of <domain name>, you could use the wild card * too. As an example, http://web.archive.org/200110*/http://<domain name>*

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