Oh yeah, I use the archive all the time for both websites. It gets the job done, but of course it's not exactly the same as seeing the active websites.

Also, it's not perfect. I've never had too many problems with longhair.org through the archive site, but it's really hit-or-miss with HWAS. A good number of the pictures won't load. Sometimes if you toggle the date some pictures that didn't load on one date will load on another, but a lot of pictures just won't come up no matter what you do.

That aside, even if the archive did work perfectly, it still wouldn't allow you to actually buy the full videos and photo sets, which is what I missed out on back in the day.