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A friend said my archive links were just dead ends now
I shared a link to a cool old GeoCities page I found, but my friend clicked it and got a 404 error. He told me, "You can't just post the original link, it's gone. You need to use the Wayback Machine." I felt pretty dumb because I didn't know about that. Now I always check archive.org first before I post anything old. Does anyone have a good method for finding the best saved snapshot?
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palmer.ryan3d ago
Yeah, @the_robin has the right idea. I always sort the results by date to find the most complete snapshot.
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the_robin3d ago
Ever try looking for the page title on the archive itself? Sometimes the direct link fails but a search there finds it.
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