Dumb computer question

[Magicfloat]

I was playing around on my desktop last night(normally use the laptop)and noticed none of my websites were current. Lake level site had the wrong level,Formula site had a program that was recently ended,etc. Turns out we had a power failue Sunday and I was in Feb instead of March. Reset the date and eveything is fine. Does that mean if I wanted to find something that is no longer on the web.could I set the date back and find it? Seems weird.

 

[cigdaze]

It would appear that you were looking at a cache of the sites that were stored the last time your computer was used. This is especially prevalent with images as most browsers use caching to enhance site load-speeds. The cache is typically set to expire once a day (or week, or month - depending on your browser settings and/or the site owners html instructions embedded in the page), so being that your date was set back a month, your browser though that those old cached images were still valid and didn't force a refresh.

 

[Sea-Dated]

What Cig said and no, you can not change the date on your PC and see old web pages.

 

[clayinaustin]

what they said!

 

[Chris]

...and if you set the time ahead, you can get tomorrow's winning lottery numbers!

 

[MarylandMark]

That would be cool but not as cool as being able to set the date to the future- like to get the Mega Millions numbers!

 

[sellsman11]

That would be cool but not as cool as being able to set the date to the future- like to get the Mega Millions numbers!

Tried it....doesnt work.:03::03:

 

[MarylandMark]

Hmmmm-

So you are saying you can't see my MTI deposit yet? Just release it to my driver- you'll see it when the time comes...

 

[Coastie]

It is possible to look at pages from as far back as 1996. Check out http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

 

[Perlmudder]

you can only see the future if your going 88mph and your fluxcapicator is working! dont you guys know anything?!