It’s no secret that the Internet is a vast repository of virtually any and all kinds of information. Recent stories about Facebook retaining our info after we delete our accounts makes me hopeful that Canadian and American authorities will reign in the behemoth. What you currently post in cyber space may well continue to cycle with the digital flotsam and jetsam long after you think you have deleted it. Facebook or not.
On the cool side of this situation is the ability to look up old web pages that have long since disappeared or been modified by their owners. The technology behind the Internet Archive and their “Wayback Machine” is really cool. I have been trolling the archive for the last couple years, downloading old documentary movies for my Mikooshka and Radio Coco Remix music/video projects.
So here I was today with this urge to look up the original Borat website in all its full-cheese mock-ugly glory. I tried googling borat.com and .net and then found links to borat.tv that appeared to lead to the “official site.” Well, Fox has long since taken over and all you get when you follow official links such as those at the IMDB, are to fluffed up corporate pages. You want the real insane original version? It’s been archived and it still amazes with its over-the-top lo-fi design.
The old Borat site (Dec 16, 2005)
“Internet in a box”
Oracle site explaining tech to keep Internet Archive going
