The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 44, October 16, 2005, Article 22

FRACTIONAL CURRENCY WEB SITE LOST

In the Summer 2005 issue of the Fractional Currency Collectors
Board newsletter, editor Jerry Fochtman writes: "Some may recall
the web site, fractionalnotes.com, which had a large number of
articles, pictures of notes, and information on the history of
fractional notes as well as helpful guides for new collectors.
Unfortunately this web site and its owner left the hobby and
disappeared, and I've not succeeded in finding anyone who had
a copy of the site or even some of the articles that were placed
on the site. However, another FCCB member is looking into
setting-up another site for our hobby."

[This is where the Wayback Machine comes in handy. In the
February 23, 2003 issue of The E-Sylum (v6n8), subscriber
Kavan Ratnatunga introduced us to this great resource:
"A 120 Terabyte archive of the Internet was put online in Oct
2001 in the WayBack Machine."

Bill Malkmus gave us an update on July 31st of this year (v8n33):
"The Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal had a
fascinating front-page article on a website that should be of
interest to other folks like me who have a library of obsolete
(non-functional) bookmarks: Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine has archived web pages over the last
nine years; while Google has currently 8 billion pages archived,
the Wayback Machine has a total of 40 billion! I tried this out
on my old lists of bookmarks; whenever I got a response that
the web page could not be found, I put the URL into the Wayback
Machine. Sure enough, the pages were not only archived and
retrievable, but a listing was given of the dates on which they
were archived (perhaps 30 or more), and in addition, notation
was made of whenever the web pages had been changed!"

The Wayback Machine archived FractionalNotes.com
sixty-six times between December 4, 2000 and November 3,
2004. Not all of these archived dates have copies of the
full web site. A random check noted that February 4, 2003
and July 30, 2003 have at least some of the site's pages and
images. I've passed this information on to Jerry to assist the
club in re-establishing the web site. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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