Want to go down in history?

Sunday, March 11, 2007 21:30 | 147 views

Posted in category Cool Finds, My Opinion, Site Update

Or at least have your website/blog go down in history?

The Internet Archive will, and may already have your website in their database. If you think an old site you had deleted to cover up something you don’t want to be seen is gone for good, you may want to check here.

I checked the old URL from this site and it went way back to Jun 08, 2003. It even shows the flash template I was using at the time. One thing is that images and media don’t get stored as far as I can tell. I even seen an old Web Site I had back in 1999 called www.goodconnection.com. I ended up selling that Domain for $7,200 CAD and it seems the site is still there, but it’s not an online store like it used to be. My other store turned maritime search engine www.maritimeshore.com is showing archived in 2001.

It seems a couple of images will get stored too. If you see my old sites all you’ll see is a bunch of broken images. I think the service archives mostly text content, and the occasional graphic.

So when you post things on your site, you may want to think about what it is your saying, and if you’re like me sometimes and get a little under the alcofluence of incohole and blog mindless babble, then delete it the following day, chances are it just might have made it to the Archive Site.

Imagine name bashing somebody you really hated but then removed that post. Don’t think it’s gone for good, because it could just end up in the Archive.

On that note. What if somebody claims they read something written by you, and you actually didn’t? What if it was incriminating to you? Like that Fake MySpace page from awhile back. Or even yet, what if somebody else tries to take credit for your site?

Claim ID will help protect you and your work. What it does is put a digital Hash on your site that is digitally signed to correspond to your ClaimID account.

Setup is a bit overwhelming and a bit confusing but it eventually starts to make sense after you start into it.So if you have an online resume, you might want to add your Digital ID to it because from what I understand and what I heard on Call For Help, employers might find this useful to connect you with your work and get a sense on who you are. Just make sure you don’t include your cult pages, that would be bad. Oh yes, very bad indeed.

Having this on your blog would prove to be effective also because it connects you to it. It will help with search indexing also, so that’s an added bonus.

I just thought I would share this interesting find so if anybody is writing satanic verses and thinks it’s not going to be seen… well. Think again. Speaking of satanic verses, I better remove my name from that membership.. I don’t attend there anymore..

But this is just my opinion, and you’re entitled to it.

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2 Responses to “Want to go down in history?”

Enigma says:

March 12th, 2007 at 2:21 am

I want to understand services such as ClaimID before using them. I’m concerned about my privacy, spammers – the usual stuff. After quick reading of ClaimdIDs FAQ and blog , I didn’t find answers to my concerns.
Basically it looked like a handy Single Sign-On service. But it’s a startup run by students.
They have managed to get quite many users so surely it deserves a second look. And third.
I enjoyed reading your post. I’m already familiar with Wayback-machine, or Internet archive and it’s good to spread the knowledge. But it is also a very cool tool to play around!
MacBros says:

March 12th, 2007 at 10:20 am

It came highly recommended by Amber Mac from CFH. Having my content sploged and plagiarized already before, this helps me show I’m the author of the site.

If you have multiple sites, you might want to get this. You can refer people to your claimID card and it will list all the sites you are the author of.

So if somebody copies something from you and rewrites it to make you look like an ass or an idiot, you can reassure whoever asks that the site is a spoof.

This is especially good for folks that are well known in the internet community.
For example, Leo Laporte and Wil Wheaton might want something like this because they own multiple of articles on numerous sites. If somebody wanted to impersonate them to try and increase traffic to their own site all they would have to do is stamp Leo’s or Wil’s name on it. I know I wouldn’t want some ass writing stuff and putting my name on it. What if it’s some ax murderer talking about his victims?

The privacy with the service is very good. You get to choose what you want on your ID Page, and they claim that they do not resell or give your information away to third parties. Would kind of defeat their whole purpose if they did.

I can’t see spammers being a problem, because like I said, you choose what you want to be seen. (ie: e-mail)

You also get to place a link image on your site to your claim ID page. So people may see what sites you’re responsible for. Mine is on the right side bar under Link Whore Stuff.

It’s really a nice way to say, “These are my sites I’m responsible for, anything else is just a FAKE.”