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>I'm surprised that big news sites don't seem to have stable links

BBC is an exception to this - the way they publish their news pages means they have articles going back over a decade (with the original styling)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1537469.stm

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That's brilliant, and I wouldn't expect anything less from the BBC. They are technically competent and innovated in the broadcasting space, like a few other networks did/do. It surely helped that the BBC have (had?) an R&D department.

I love how they show the whole page as it was on the day.

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