Gone but not forgotten SOC Members

[John Brunner]

What is the Wayback site?

It's an archive of websites taken in snapshots. I know that anyone can have a webpage archived there by using the Wayback Machine site's tools, but I'm not sure if there are instances where it archives websites/pages automatically. @Ken Anderson is more conversant in it than I am.

There are lots of snapshots of Seniors Only Club there that you can browse/search just as though you were on a live site...you just can't post there. The site says that SOC has been saved 4,786 between Feb 6, 2015 and today.

Here is the link for the SOC archive: link

 

[Faye Fox]

It's an archive of websites taken in snapshots. I know that anyone can have a webpage archived there by using the Wayback Machine site's tools, but I'm not sure if there are instances where it archives websites/pages automatically. @Ken Anderson is more conversant in it than I am.

There are lots of snapshots of Seniors Only Club there that you can browse/search just as though you were on a live site...you just can't post there. The site says that SOC has been saved 4,786 between Feb 6, 2015 and today.

Here is the link for the SOC archive: link

Thanks John! It even shows who was online. So much for my thinking the past had been erased, so now back in witness protection for me.

 

[Ken Anderson]

What is the Wayback site?

Wayback Machine/Internet Archive thread.

 

[Ken Anderson]

It's an archive of websites taken in snapshots. I know that anyone can have a webpage archived there by using the Wayback Machine site's tools, but I'm not sure if there are instances where it archives websites/pages automatically. @Ken Anderson is more conversant in it than I am.

Yes, its robot periodically archives sites and pages, as well. However, forums create a lot of pages that their auto-archiving won't come close to keeping up with. The best way to be sure the threads and pages you read are archived is to install their plugin, which is available for most browsers. Except for times when Wayback is overloaded with requests or other glitches, websites and pages that I visit on the Internet are archived. Keep in mind, however, that it can take a few days or longer for a page to be available in the archive after it has been spidered.