One of the weaknesses of the Internet at the close of 1999 is its archival material.
Web sites come and go.
Web managers change their minds about the information presented in a Web site from one week to another. There is no caretaker of the Internet to archive Web sites and the information in them as librarians archive traditional media within library walls. As you probably know, the Internet can be an excellent place to look for current information, specifically on stocks, currency exchanges, interest rates and the like. In this month's column, we will review Web sites that are available for reliable historical financial data. Wall Street City by Telescan, Inc. allows retrieval of historical stock quotes.