Mr. Peabody's WayBack Machine

It is good practice to occasionally rehash old topics for two reasons. One is that there are always new people coming to the website and have not seen the information before (at least not here). The second is because most people, especially RF Cafe visitors, experience information overload just about every day so a lot of unused data gets pushed off the bottom of the memory stack.

Although admittedly a bit self-serving, I want to remind you - or inform you for the first time as the case may be - about the really useful WayBack Machine (borrowed from Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine) at archive.org. There, you have a good chance of finding long-gone web pages. Paul van Oorschot, of ResistorGuide.com, just found the long ago disappearing article titled Near Field vs. Far Field from the equally mysteriously disappearing Conformity magazine website.

Posted February 2013

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RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...