Tracing when a page was first posted on the internet

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One of the Nationals has used one of my photos without permission. Fortunately, the paper in question has conveniently dated the article and I've taken a screen grab so I'm just about to write off to them, but I remember that many moons ago someone on this site was able to see when a web page had been created.

Does anyone know how this is done?

TIA
Barney
 
Can you give a link to the page?
 
Karlos said:
there's the internet archive, it's a little bit hit a miss but worth a try
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html
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Thanks, but the site's bloacked that as an option.

also if it's a static page you may be able to find out the created date by checking the http headers, (usually found with a right click then page info or page properties or similar)
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I've copied and saved the source code as a back-up, thanks for the hint. The page itself is dated, so that gives me an idea, but it's more proving that it went live on a certain date that's my query.
 
Do you have access to good old netscape navigator? It may work with the site and it had the ability to tell you when page was uploaded.
 
OK but you need someone with IE or Firefox to run this.

Definitely works in IE8 but doesn't for all sites.

go to the webpage in question

in the address bar clear the url and type

javascript:alert(document.lastModified)
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If it works it will provide the date the page was last uploaded.

Hope it helps
 
Thanks, but that just told me that it was modified 2 minutes ago (they have rolling ads etc so I presume that's why)
 
that's yet another way of viewing those HTTP Headers that I've been going on about - not to be confused with the HTML source code or the <head> section of the site!
The HTTP headers contain information used by your browser to do all sorts of things, such as caching, cookies, referrers etc etc..
There's a firefox plugin called 'Live HTTP headers' which shows them all if your interested.

if it's a dynamic page they're not much use to you though
 
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