Wayback Machine

[Fulvio]

While chasing up a few things this morning, it occurred to me that not everyone may be aware of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. This is an effort to pretty much back up the whole internet, with snapshots taken at irregular intervals.

You can even find our old forum there (though sadly not the content, which required a login).

Here's an interesting starting point, a big list of errors for sale by Ian Hartshorn (CobWebs) back in 2008. His Errors and Varieties pages are also preserved, though he stopped updating them in 2007, and removed them entirely years ago.

http://web.archive.org/web/20080816002715/http://members.optusnet.com.au/~ihartshorn/forsale/dec-error.htm

[Nevol]

I bought quite a lot of errors off Ian.  :angel:

[Goldseeker]

Somewhere home here I have Ian's book on Australian Errors that he brought  out many years ago.   Something like Pocket Change.........

[Fulvio]

That's the one, Goldy. I wrote to him to ask about one of his other passions, as I'm looking into recumbent bikes at the moment, but haven't heard back from him yet. Hopefully he hasn't given up on coins entirely, though there is no longer any mention anywhere on his website. Just bikes and running and other strenuous activity..

Be nice to catch up again. He's the guy who spotted that my very first 1999 IYOP cud $1 was also an upset when I showed it to him in Ferntree Gully.

[Goldseeker]

Guess what I found this morning.   I thought I had lost it:

[Nevol]

Excellent!  I often wondered what that book looked like.  Now I know! Thanks! :yahoo:

[Fulvio]

Probably should scan it and keep the PDF for posterity.

[Goldseeker]

AH, I could do that but wait, I must what the book says about COPYRIGHT.

[Fulvio]

Fair use allows you to make a copy. Distributing it may be another matter.