Archived websites (1996 – now)
The National Library's PANDORA web archive has been building a collection of
Australian websites since 1996. Many of the significant sites preserved by PANDORA, such as the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games website are no longer available on the web.
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Sports and recreation
Sydney Olympics
The official website of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Archived between January 1998 and October 2000, including every day of competition.
Fatso
Fatso the Wombat was an unofficial mascot of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games created by sporting comedians "Roy and HG".
Website archived in 2000.
National quilt register
"The National Quilt Register is a major initiative of the Pioneer Women's Hut, a museum located at Tumbarumba at the
foothills to the Snowy Mountains in southern NSW, Australia."
The Bladder
Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true
"While attempting to find out what is really inside sport, The Bladder pokes fun at anything sports-related."
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Politics and current affairs
Kevin07
Official campaign website of the Australian Labor Party for the 2007 Federal Election. Archived during the campaign period.
Webdiary
The first online newspaper blog written by Margo Kingston at the Sydney Morning Herald beginning in September 2001.
Centenary of Federation
The official website of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. One of more than 30 sites archived
during the 2001 celebratory year.
Crikey
Groundbreaking online news and opinion website which was archived regularly in its early pre-subscription days, beginning in early 2000.
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Culture
Cyber Poetry
Website of one of Australia's pioneer 'cyber poets', Komninos and one of the earliest archived websites dating from early 1997.
axel-and-alice
... is about a bunch of kids who go to a weird school at the bottom of Australia.
You can read the kids' stories or you can dive right inside their minds to find out stuff that even their best friends don't know.
Philip Salom's poetry
Welcome to Philip Salom's poetry web pages and multimedia poetry web site
Web of poets : contemporary Australian poetry read by the poets
Featuring Dorothy Porter, J.S. Harry, Philip Rush, Chris Mansell and others
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Unclassifiable, incomprehensible and inconceiveable
Australian International University
More Better Education ®
Australis 100
If Australis was a person it would be as attractive as Elton John, as approachable as Schwarzenegger's smile and as enigmatic as Demi Moore.
Changing the Universe
A Longhair Scientific Site
The web was never better than this - the W3C should have put up the
"house full" sign and sealed it shut in September 2000.
The history of footwear
Maybe I should begin this presentation with a warning to those amongst us with a gentle disposition, for what
you are about to see will never make you trust another pair of shoes, or feet again.
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