h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

try this wonderful machine!! The Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

and a few teasers
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/onthefuture/
http://web.archive.org/web/20031212033808/www.bbc.co.uk/dna/onthefuture/A1108810
and
http://web.archive.org/web/20060408033626/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/read

i ran my cursor over links on the pages to get subsequent addresses



or have you already heard about the wayback machine?

Yep, I've sometimes used it to look at what my user page looked like before the BBC took over, when we were allowed to use any picture of our choice.

Very handy for all sorts of things, really.

i would imagine!

if i had enuf of a history i guess i could use it on mine too

but when i ran it it didnt show me at all...

i had a pretty fancy ps in the first flush of getting here in 07





tons of

A very handy function. Have already found one of my B.o.t.F entries.
Ancient Brit

Well, how nice to see that again; especially as some of the conversation threads are accessible as well. Wouldn't it be nice, now the redesign is (almost?) out of the way someone could fix it so that Book of the Future became visible again...

Hi Cris - Yes it would be great if some of our h2g2 techies exploited some of the BBC facilities in a way that enhanced the new capitalised H2G2. - Pinch a few pics for example. Customise BBC search, the mind boggles.
Ancient Brit