PSA: The Wayback machine saved my bacon on a 2005 pest control blog post

I was trying to track down an old method for dealing with carpenter ants in pine mulch, something I remembered from a forum thread back in 2005. The link was dead on some archived site, but I punched the URL into the Wayback Machine and found a cached version from August 2006. That saved me three hours of re-testing stuff I already tried. Has anyone else lucked out with the Wayback for niche industry info like that?

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umasullivan20d ago

Saved my butt on a niche vintage motorcycle manual from 2010. Without that cached version I would have been sunk trying to rebuild a carburetor. It's basically the unsung hero of obscure internet archaeology.

lisa_wilson8719d ago

@umasullivan called it perfectly. Always cache the weird stuff before they vanish.