is easier than you might think. Go to the Internet Archive at www.archive.org and use the Way Back Machine search engine to locate old editions of websites you are interested in.
While you're at the Internet Directory, browse some live concert downloads at the Live Music Archive or read a book at Project Guttenberg.
Issue: Your case involves an aging party or witness (for you or your adversary) and you want to know if they are still alive to testify at a deposition or at trial.
Solution: Go to the Social Security Death Index maintained by ancestry.com and enter the person's name or social security number to see the results. Their records are not complete but they are a start.
Issue: Your case is assigned to a particular judge and you would like to see their motion decisions on a given issue.
Solution: Go to OCA's Future Court Appearance home page and choose "OnLine Decisions." Click on "Full Text Search of Decision Now Available" and search using the name of the judge and the issue, e.g., "kitzes AND 'serious injury.'" Click on the resulting pdf documents highlighted in blue for full text decisions.
Problem: in the course of discovery, you come upon a telephone number, e.g., in in a cell phone log and you want to know who it corresponds to.
Solution: Enter the number in the respective search field boxes of Google.com or AnyWho's online directory. If the number is listed or published on the Internet (at least via Google), you are likely to find a person or business to correspond with the number.
