Oh my. I just came across the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, [1] with an archive of the web going back to 1996. Okay, it may not be the entire web, but as they state:
You are about to use the world's largest database. With over 100 terabytes and 10 billion web pages archived from 1996 to the present, the Wayback Machine puts the history of the World Wide Web and the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available.
I tried it on an old URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of mine:
http://pineal.math.fau.edu/~spc/
And yes, it did fine a link [2] to that page, and unlike Google's [3] cache, it includes the picture [4] that was on the site at the time. Quite impressive.
I then decided to see if I could resurrect the site my old partner Chuck [5] had, but the site kept giving me internal server errors. Hmmmm …
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/19980502104401/pineal.math.fau.edu/~spc/
[4] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/about/1998/0301.html