Cool Tool

[its_virgil]

No, not a turning tool and not even a pen tool. But, cool just the same. Yesterday Matthew Webb was looking for instructions for the Havana rollerball which was once sold by craft supplies but has been discontinued for a few years now. Now, here is the cool tool: Internet Archive: Wayback Machine which is the internet's versions of the Way-back machine.

I went there, entered the CSUSA web address, picked a year I thought the havana was still available and picked a snapshot date. Navigated to the instructions page and there it was along with all or the pen instruction as of that day. This tool can be very handy. Several have asked me about Russ Fairfield's website. Even though it is no longer online, it lives in the "thrilling days of the internet yester-year" via web.archive.org . A cool tool for sure.

Do a good turn daily!
Don

 

[southernclay]

That is cool, I can get a lot of use out of this, thanks!

 

[its_virgil]

you're welcome

That is cool, I can get a lot of use out of this, thanks!

 

[BSea]

That is very cool. I regularly save pages that have instructions. But that's only good if I save an active page that later goes inactive. I can see where I'll use this from time to time.