TimesMachine

Sometimes I run across things that I assume will be lame, but in reality they are not lame. What serendipity!

One example of such luck is the TimesMachine, from... you guessed it... The New York Times.


From the section's intro:

TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.

The functionality of this section is really cool, and the ability to delve into the content is fantastic, too. (The reason I assumed it would be lame: I immediately recalled the old microfiche machines I've had to use in the past. *shudder*)

It's so fantastic to me when a site with such authority creates something like this... who better to let you dive into the news of yesteryear than the Times? Now I just wish they'd get a little more user-gen up in here, not unlike the Library of Congress/Flickr Commons project that I love to bring up time and again.