Once More Into the Breach…

I decided to put in the page for the Washington Capitals on the nhl website into the wayback machine (predictably). I enjoyed seeing all of the changes. The coolest part was that I could track which players were on the team at any given time, usually just by the picture on the front page. It was also interesting to see the old logo and color scheme on the website, I’m so used to the energizing, sometimes blinding red of the current Caps website. It appears that the wayback machine either started recording the website in June of 2007, or that is when the site was created. The most changes to the website occurred in January and february of 2012. Unfortunately, when I tried to look at the 2012 pages to see what all the changes could be about, I kept getting a 302 error code. Wait! Nevermind! as I was writing that, the page loaded. It was cool cause it had the roster with the names of all the players at that exact point in time.
It was also entertaining to see pictures of a younger Ovi. 🙂

I feel that the wayback machine could be a valuable tool in preserving our digital history. If we don’t do something like this, or continue attempting to archive, we will look a rich source of our history, and how we emerged as a digital society.

Links to the 2007 Caps page and current page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070614015422/http://capitals.nhl.com/

(Capitals website 14 June 2007)

http://capitals.nhl.com/

(Capitals website today)

~ by chriscaps on May 2, 2013 .