Time-travelling browsers navigate the web's past - tech - 16 November 2009 - New Scientist
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
Searching for past web pages with the Wayback Machine is "a lot of hassle. But it shoudn't be, says Herbert Van de Sompel, a computer scientist at Los Alamos....'We've a better way.' That 'better way' is a system that gives browsers a 'time-travel' mode, allowing users to find web pages from particular dates and times without having to navigate through archives. Called Memento, the system Van de Sompel is developing alongside colleagues from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, harnesses a function of the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)...."