11-30-2022, 07:56 PM
Oh wow - this is quite a pleasant surprise! Thanks for sharing this.
And yes, this archive used to be publicly visible, but it was made inaccessible a few years ago. I'm not quite sure what happened, but site owners can request their sites to not be archived by the Wayback Machine. This is understandable. However, if someone buys a domain name and requests their site to be excluded from the Wayback Machine, this request will be retroactively applied to other sites that have shared that domain in the past - even if they have nothing to do with the new owner's operations. Yes, that's dumb, and Archive.org was extremely unhelpful when I e-mailed them a few years ago about this.
I agree that it would be wise to download our own version of this archive, just in case this disappears again. I'm not sure whether there's an easy, automated way to scrape these archives. Keep me posted!
And yes, this archive used to be publicly visible, but it was made inaccessible a few years ago. I'm not quite sure what happened, but site owners can request their sites to not be archived by the Wayback Machine. This is understandable. However, if someone buys a domain name and requests their site to be excluded from the Wayback Machine, this request will be retroactively applied to other sites that have shared that domain in the past - even if they have nothing to do with the new owner's operations. Yes, that's dumb, and Archive.org was extremely unhelpful when I e-mailed them a few years ago about this.
I agree that it would be wise to download our own version of this archive, just in case this disappears again. I'm not sure whether there's an easy, automated way to scrape these archives. Keep me posted!
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