Finding things on the web/internet
Every lose something, I think we can safely all agree that
we have and know the feeling all too well but in this day of age we also lose
things on the internet. Now google
serves a very good purpose there especially when you really started to
understand how to use it but more on that later, today I am talking about some
of the vast information sites that change format over and over and then
suddenly you can’t find something you once could before. I recently had this problem, I knew the
material existed and has existed since about 2001 but the website it was on is
both huge and ever changing so finding the same material again turned into a
very challenging task. Every few days I
would show back up at this site’s search or google search and try a few new
words that might inch me closer to the desired destination but each time was
greeted with countless pages I didn’t desire or nothing. I knew it was downloadable material, knew a
few of the key words that should of got me some good results but nothing was
working.
So when this happens to you, head over to web.archive.org or commonly referred to as
the wayback machine. I knew the site I
was looking for so the first step was easy, let’s look at the site but what
this allows me to do is to look at the site the way it was years back. (of
course if wayback machine crawled if but so far it has hit everything I wanted
and experimented with) The material I
wanted wasn’t showing up, so I started going back in time. Each time it kept the link as it was but let
me look at the same page moving backwards in time until finally, there was the
age old page really to give up its secrets.
I suggested if you are looking for something on a public
site and having issues, give it a try.
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