50 Best Websites 2009
Clear out your bookmarks. You're going to need the space for 50 offerings that are indispensable to navigating, enjoying yourself, shopping or just killing time on the Web.
Ever wonder what TIME.com looked like way back in 1998? Or what eBay looked like on the day of its birth? Well, you can travel back in time and find out using Internet Archive. The site's mission is to back up the Internet — the whole damn thing. Right now it has 3 petabytes of information in its servers (that's 85 billion Web pages, or 10 quadrillion [10 to the power of 15] ones and zeros). That's nowhere near a googol (10 to the power of 100), but it is the equivalent of 1.21 jiggawatts.
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