was browsing this
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html which I occasionally use to get information from the net that has been removed (ie. in the year my rib was made - what the hp rating was, as the manufacturer changed it a few times) you can do this for just about any website as a periodic snap shot of the time the site was logged... here's RIBnet:
1998:
http://web.archive.org/web/199812062...//www.rib.net/
2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/200003011...ttp://rib.net/
The forum front page, pretty much when it first appeared on the achive by the looks in 2000:
http://web.archive.org/web/200010270...i?action=intro
2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211231...ttp://rib.net/
Forum in 2002:
http://web.archive.org/web/200212010...rld.com/forum/
2004:
http://web.archive.org/web/200409032...//www.rib.net/
2007: and obviously you don't need to see the latest incarnation
