The Wayback Machine

Does anyone still use the wayback machine? For those who don't know what it is, I'll post a quick rundown at the bottom of this post.
I decided to use it to go back to some websites that I used to go to from the 2005-2010 years, particularly the old RSPS websites and old RS2 guides that have long been forgotten about.

I visited the MoparScape, SilabSoft and Sal's Realm websites, and was surprised that most links were archived and were still accessible - Forums, Screenshots, Item list, NPC list, etc.. The problem was when trying to access the client link in Silab and MoparScape since the owner of the websites obviously don't host anymore.

Other than that, I managed to grab a whole bunch of old screenshots from the 2006 version of RS2 as well as some beta screenshots from Sal's Realm. To me, those kinds of screenshots from that era of RuneScape are considered vintage, and I am thankful for the Wayback Machine for having an archive of all these interesting things.
The beta pictures are especially interesting, because while they look like boring pictures of houses and places that we all know about already, they were actually a very new and different design for players back then from the RSC graphics everyone was used to.
Cows and monsters had death animations put in and everyone was all like "holy sweet fucking mother of guthix, that's fucking dope". It was the beginning of a game that all of us now recognize and love.

You can go back to any old website and save any information you come across, as long as it has been archived. If the website you are trying to reach has not been archived, you will not be able to view that website.

Attached pictures are not mine and are not of me.


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"The Internet Archive, a 501©(3) non-profit, 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, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge"

"We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 625+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages."

"As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. Today our archive contains:

- 330 billion web pages
- 20 million books and texts
- 4.5 million audio recordings (including 180,000 live concerts)
- 4 million videos (including 1.6 million Television News programs)
- 3 million images
- 200,000 software programs"

https://archive.org/web/

^^Taken from the "About" section on the wayback website.

Definitely a fun share and its nice to see how everything came to be. Thanks for the info and post