Friday, November 21, 2008

Alexa "wayback machine"

As mention in class about the capability of alexa.com to all us to view how web page looks like a few years back. I will use IUJ page as example and walk you through a few easy steps.

1. Go to http://www.alexa.com
2. On search area put iuj.ac.jp to search for the website --> you should get the site
3. Click on "Get Traffic Details"
4. Then you will see a lot of information about site. On the left navigator menu you can see section call "Wayback Machine: see how iuj.ac.jp looked in the past"
5. There you go, you can find how IUJ looks like in 1997 - It's kinda simple html page.

I also try with retired website ebay.co.jp and it works.