Crash 1996 Internet Archive -

The result: The entire developer.netscape.com subdomain was wiped. The Internet Archive had last crawled it on . That crawl saved roughly 40% of the files. The rest (including early JavaScript examples by Brendan Eich) are lost forever.

Do you have a 1996 crash story or a missing webpage? Share the URL in the comments—perhaps the hive mind has a copy. crash 1996 internet archive

The Internet Archive continues to evolve and expand its collections, working to ensure that the digital artifacts of our time are preserved for future generations. The result: The entire developer

The primary goal of the Archive was to prevent a catastrophic memory crash of the human race. Without the work done in 1996, we would have lost the primary sources of the dot-com boom. We wouldn't know what Yahoo! looked like when The rest (including early JavaScript examples by Brendan