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capturing the Y2K moment
Along the lines of trying to capture snapshots of the Web, an interesting site is
http://208.11.77.166/biglist.htm
It's an online collection of screenshots from sites affected by Y2K. Most of them are far from exciting in themselves (just regular pages with a date presented incorrectly). But it provides a case of trying to capture evidence of a portion of the Web at a given point in time.
For a couple laughs, you may want to check out the particurarly ironic ones linked below:
http://kwikware.com/y2kmistakes/airport2.jpg
http://208.11.77.166/hp.jpg
Happy 19100, no 1900, I mean 3900, uh 100,...
make that 2000!
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Cal Lee
Electronic Records Project Archivist
Kansas State Historical Society
Phone: 785-272-8681, ext. 280 Fax: 785-272-8682
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- Ted Nelson
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