Templum Bellonae

For those of you who don’t know it, or for those who, like me, keep forgetting it, www.archive.org is the home of the Internet Archive, which has a very special and wonderful tool called the Wayback Machine.

The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

The Wayback Machine allows you to search for archived copies of particular pages; it’s kind of like the google cache, but without a time limit.

It means that I can post links to stories that have disappeared without warning, but I’m not going to do this if it’s clear that the author has removed the story herself and doesn’t want it to be available anymore.

So, if you read a rec that has a broken link, look for the link to the Wayback Machine for an old, archived copy of the story.

If any authors have taken their stories offline on purpose, let me know and I’ll take down the link.