Friday, December 11, 2015

oldweb.today website

oldweb.today.  Ilya Kreymer. Website. December 10, 2015.
     This is an interesting site that provides an emulator for various web browsers to search historic web sites. The tool Netcapsule, which can be used on the website oldweb.today, is built with open source tools that communicates with web archives. It allows you to browse "old web pages the old way with virtual browsers"; the user can navigate by url and by time. When the page is loaded "the old browser is loaded in an emulator-like setup" that can connect to the archive. Any archive that supports the CDX or Memento protocol interfaces can be a source. Full source code is available on Github.

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