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==Example of an Easy Search== | ==Example of an Easy Search== | ||
#Visit the Internet Archive by typing in 'archive.org' or http://www.archive.org | #Visit the Internet Archive by typing in 'archive.org' or http://www.archive.org | ||
#In this case let's look for the Orange County party in California. If we start with <nowiki>http://lp.org</nowiki></tt>, you will see that there is a version available from 1996. Click on 1996 and it shuld take you there. Avoid clicking on the histogram above it, as that will take you somewhere less useful. If you do that hit your back button and try again. | #In this case let's look for the Orange County party in California. If we start with '''<tt><nowiki>http://lp.org</nowiki></tt>''', you will see that there is a version available from 1996. Click on 1996 and it shuld take you there. Avoid clicking on the histogram above it, as that will take you somewhere less useful. If you do that hit your back button and try again. | ||
#From the http://wayback.archive.org/web/19960101000000*/http://lp.org page, where you should be right now, open the page for 6 November 1996. You should see photos of [[Harry Browne]] and [[Jo Jorgensen]] and a logo for the 1996 convention. | #From the http://wayback.archive.org/web/19960101000000*/http://lp.org page, where you should be right now, open the page for 6 November 1996. You should see photos of [[Harry Browne]] and [[Jo Jorgensen]] and a logo for the 1996 convention. | ||
#The page is very simple by today's standards, and it should be easy to pick out 'Info by State' as the seventh item down. Click on that or open it in a new window or tab.' | #The page is very simple by today's standards, and it should be easy to pick out 'Info by State' as the seventh item down. Click on that or open it in a new window or tab.' | ||
#You should easily find your way to California, then to Orange County at http://web.archive.org/web/19961106051233/http://www.lp.org/lp/ca/lpsc.html | #You should easily find your way to California, then to Orange County at http://web.archive.org/web/19961106051233/http://www.lp.org/lp/ca/lpsc.html | ||
#Replace the datestamp information with * to go to http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lpoc.org/ and you can now access every stored page from the oldest preserved page to the most recent. | #Replace the datestamp information with * to go to http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.lpoc.org/ and you can now access every stored page from the oldest preserved page to the most recent. | ||
#Open each | #Open each version, of the page in a new tab or window and retrieve the information you're looking for. The earliest page doesn't list the executive committee, but the second oldest one does: http://web.archive.org/web/19980611070535/http://www.lpoc.org/ | ||
==Example of a Less Easy Search== | ==Example of a Less Easy Search== | ||