Right now, I'd say the two most interesting sites for me personally are:
google.com and .ca
archive.org
Yeah, I know. Everyone knows about Google. But two features that I find useful that most people seem unaware of are:
(1) if you put
site:radiowest.ca before your search word(s), you will only be searching radiowest.ca. Not just the discussion forum, but the complete site. And, for over 90% of the web sites on this planet, site: gives you a better Search facility than the one provided by the web site itself. You can also be more selective on most sites. For example, site:vancouvertop40radio.com/Station%20Selection/CKWX/1958/ will allow you to search for songs on the 1958 CKWX charts.
(2) if you use
google.ca instead of google.com AND remember to select
Pages from Canada, you are more likely to find Canadian web sites. It is far from perfect, but it sure beats doing a normal google search.
Archive.org is really quite interesting, as it tries to create a Time Machine, which they call
The Wayback Machine, where you can hop on board and see almost any Web site as it existed on specific days in the past. I haven't really looked, but I'm sure you cannot Google or use any other Search engine for a specific day in history. And I seem to recall that Google does not include pages from Archive.org in its search engine. Archive.org does, however, have some rudimentary tools that let you find all files in a particular URL "folder".
Also, be patient, as it takes them a while to find all the graphics that makes your page look right. And sometimes, they never stored all the graphics because the Web site was too slow back when they collected this material.
As an example, here is Edmonton's Power 92 web site as it existed on January 25, 1999. You even get to see Mr. Maynard dance The Dork.
http://web.archive.org/web/199901250915 ... wer92.com/