Bob Schroeck Wrote:We may have a minor long-term problem -- as a side effect of going through the Wayback Machine archives of my website last week, I discovered that they seem to be offlining anything older than about five years. I was once able to get copies of my site's top page going back to the founding of the Machine; now there's nothing there older than about 2012. This is going to have some severe repercussions on our ability to restore still-lost material. We need to go through "Pages Needing Restoration" now and rescue everything we can before it becomes unavailable for casual retrieval.
I confirm that the Drunkard's walk main page is archived "17 times between February 24, 2012 and December 27, 2016" as of this posting.
I also report that I can pull data from as far back as 2002 from other sites.
Did you annoy somebody at archive.org, Bob? <g>
But, yes, if we're going to pull data out of the Wayback Machine, best to do it sooner rather than later. We have a list of pages that we want; I wonder whether someone can automate a crawl of them.
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Rob Kelk
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