Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by cleverjake » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 6:20 PM UTC

Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs
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Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by thomasvendetta » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:14 PM UTC

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you.

The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by scarmig » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:22 PM UTC

thomasvendetta wrote: post #2

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you. The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

You forgot a DOCTYPE.

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by cglace » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

thomasvendetta wrote: post #2

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you. The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

Your animated gifs are awesome.

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by thomasvendetta » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

scarmig wrote: post #3

thomasvendetta wrote: post #2

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you. The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

You forgot a DOCTYPE.

Obviously I live on the wild side.

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:36 PM UTC

Just imagine hosting this beast and then having 1,000 people wanting to scan the entire thing every second! For free!

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by ddorian43 » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

Does anyone know what database they use? Or just files and folders?

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by arscan » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

thomasvendetta wrote: post #2

Seriously, the Wayback Machine is awesome. Just last week I used it to find a website I made twelve years ago at the ripe age of 10. If there are any maintainers/developers reading this, thank you. The fact that they were able to preserve a masterpiece like this means a lot to me: http://web.archive.org/web/20010124071800/http://expage.com/...

Agreed. Back in '96 I was a teenager who spent all his free time running a modest gaming fan website [1]. I dropped it when I went to college a year later, but its nice to know all that hard work will forever be memorialized within the wayback machine. It helps me remember why I became a software engineer in the first place. Thanks for that.

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/19970414022225/http://www.scorche...

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by mtrn » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 7:58 PM UTC

I'm ten percent into an implementation of a 'personal web archive', mostly as a fun side-project. I just wonder, if historical data gets more interesting as the web ages?

Re: Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

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Post by zwieback » Thu, Jan 10, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

Cherished memories: word.com from the late '90s