Google Groups
Searchable archive of more than 700 million Usenet postings from a period of more than 20 years.
NewsletterArchive.org
Aims to archive and make available to the public all email newsletters and electronic mailing lists. It will rely on user contributions for its content.
Searchenginewatch.com - It's Tough to Get a Good Date with a Search Engine
Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date.
The Internet Archive
Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots".
Web Design Timeline
Ten years of web design in an archive.
DevArchives
Contains archives of FAQs, mailing lists, and newsgroups all related to developer/programming/IT. Free.
Ghost Sites
Long running online "museum" provides screenshots of defunct sites.
First Monday: Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines
Journal article by Paul Wouters, Iina Hellsten, and Loet Leydesdorff. Examines the consequences and implications of internet search engines continuously reconstructing the past by updating their indices.
NoveltyNet
A site where people can submit orphaned content to be archived and kept available.
Textfiles
Contains information gathered from BBS's in the early days of the Internet.
The Register: Google, the Only Archive We'll Ever Need?
Opinion piece by Andrew Orlowski. Points out that Google can't always index, retrieve and/or sort everything in useful ways, but its supporters are overlooking these major drawbacks to using it as an archive.
The Register: The Web as Historical Record
Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."
The Register: Britain's Web Presence to be Saved
Announcement of the creation of the UK Web Archiving Consortium (UKWAC).
The Register: Archive.org Suffers Fahrenheit 911 Memory Loss
Opinion piece by Ashlee Vance about how archive.org doesn't permanently save material the way most people believe it does.
UK Web Archiving Consortium
Creating an archive of culturally significant UK websites.
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