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webdiva:
--- Quote from: ""Ursus"" ---But how does one penetrate into Forum archives? Wayback only give me their indexes, not the contents.
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You can even find Member lists from members that are gone and deleted. I my get shot but hey this is public knowledge. and you will hit some links that don't work you can't always drill down through the entire site but still you can find missing posts esp if you have some info about that post.
YOu can break the search down to just search a specific time period too.
Froderik:
This is all very interesting...
But as I'm reading this I wonder why would someone (aside from an internet cop, maybe) want to bother looking up "yesterday's papers"?
webdiva:
--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---This is all very interesting...
But as I'm reading this I wonder why would someone (aside from an internet cop, maybe) want to bother looking up "yesterday's papers"?
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Well Frod let me explain. Lets say sally joe posts some really important info. A year later sally comes back and deletes it. It will be in the archives none the less...
It's a public library that stores information just like libraries keep newspapers years back. If someone dies and their site and info gets deleted, its gone. This prevents that. Have you checked it out? its not just "archiving websites" thats one of many things.
Music, audio books, video, educational material, congressional and government documents, software, books etc. And this is Global. All PUBLIC information nothing private but still to be able to go to one site for reference material on just about anything is awesome.
Froderik:
--- Quote from: ""webdiva"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---This is all very interesting...
But as I'm reading this I wonder why would someone (aside from an internet cop, maybe) want to bother looking up "yesterday's papers"?
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It's a public library that stores information just like libraries keep newspapers years back. If someone dies and their site and info gets deleted, its gone. This prevents that. Have you checked it out? its not just "archiving websites" thats one of many things.
Music, audio books, video, educational material, congressional and government documents, software, books etc. And this is Global. All PUBLIC information nothing private but still to be able to go to one site for reference material on just about anything is awesome.
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Yeah, I know it what it does (I checked it out a few months ago when psy posted something about it.)
I guess I could think of a few dead links that I'd kinda like to revisit, but for the most part I look at it like what's gone is gone and I'm pretty much ok with that...(concerning stuff on the internet).
webdiva:
--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---
--- Quote from: ""webdiva"" ---
--- Quote from: ""Froderik"" ---This is all very interesting...
But as I'm reading this I wonder why would someone (aside from an internet cop, maybe) want to bother looking up "yesterday's papers"?
--- End quote ---
It's a public library that stores information just like libraries keep newspapers years back. If someone dies and their site and info gets deleted, its gone. This prevents that. Have you checked it out? its not just "archiving websites" thats one of many things.
Music, audio books, video, educational material, congressional and government documents, software, books etc. And this is Global. All PUBLIC information nothing private but still to be able to go to one site for reference material on just about anything is awesome.
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Yeah, I know it what it does (I checked it out a few months ago when psy posted something about it.)
I guess I could think of a few dead links that I'd kinda like to revisit, but for the most part I look at it like what's gone is gone and I'm pretty much ok with that...(concerning stuff on the internet).
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Im sure you will be fine yes. and yeah there is a search feature on the site DEDICATED to the dead! oh you mean dead links like no longer existing? cuz they do have a search filter dedicated to the Grateful Dead. LOL :) The only band that got that perk.
basically its like a library on steroids. i think more people in college and highschool would find it beneficial and people that do heavy research etc.
anyway thank you for participating in this week's lesson. Next week we will be discussing "Alternative communication methods, when your friends don't like to talk on Phones." Do join us! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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