Everyone keeps linking to that newer site that replaced it, but the original had a wiring diagram that saved me $300 in fried components. Has anyone else had luck finding these old cached gems, or am I the only one still digging through Archive.org for this stuff?
I was digging through my old bookmarks last Sunday and found a link to a local band's MySpace page. They had this demo track called "Gravel Road" that I still hum sometimes. I clicked it and got the dreaded error page. Wayback Machine didn't have it either, just a couple of dead thumbnail images. They broke up back in 2009 and the lead singer moved to Austin I think. I tried searching for their old Bandcamp but that link is gone too. Anyone else still have a random song stuck in their head from a site that just vanished? What was yours?
Had a bookmark for a guy's step by step on rebuilding a cedar strip canoe. Checked it yesterday and got a 404. Wayback Machine has a cached copy from 2017 but most of the photos are broken. Anyone else run into this with niche hobby sites from the early 2000s? Any tricks for finding the missing pics?
I was writing about early 2000s indie game development and needed a reference from a site called GameDev.net that I knew had vanished around 2022. Found a cached snapshot from 2004 through the Wayback Machine with the exact forum thread I needed, including screenshots. Has anyone else had a dead link that actually had a preserved copy that saved their work?