NB: Links to archived websites

At the end of some (though not very many) entries for resources listed at this site there is a note that the site or page linked is at the ‘Wayback Archive’. This refers to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which has archived webpages since 1996. It crawls the entire web on a regular basis and stores a copy of the pages that it finds. If a webpage was online for more than a few months, unless access to it was password-restricted, it should be in the Archive.

This is extremely useful for tracing the development of websites and – more to the point here – for recovering information in old sites that have been taken down. What the ‘Wayback Archive’ annotation means is that that website (or page) is to the best of my knowledge (and I will have checked!) now defunct or otherwise inaccessible, but I consider it a significant enough resource to maintain a link to the archived version. I will have chosen as recent a version as possible, but if you visit these particular links, you need to bear in mind that:

1. The site/page will not be maintained or updated.

2. Graphics may not be available in all cases.

3. If you follow hyperlinks to other sites, you will be taken to similarly archived versions of those sites’ pages. To access the current version, you need to delete the Wayback Machine part of the URL in your browser window. So:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030823091130/www.univie.ac.at/Neuzeit/eburke.htm

Delete the section in bold and you will get the URL for the current page, provided it still exists at that location:

http://www.univie.ac.at/Neuzeit/eburke.htm