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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 05:42:55 JST Aral Balkan

   So here’s a really useful tip if you’re using archive.org to look up a site and it redirects to some other site because that’s what they saw at a later crawl…

   Prefix your search (in the URL bar) with:

   https://web.archive.org/web/*/

   So, for example, if you search for https://www.blendwebmix.com/ on archive.org, you’ll get a redirect to a different site.

   But if you enter the following URL in your browser:

   https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.blendwebmix.com/

   You’ll get the calendar view with all the crawls of the URL.

   Thanks to iarchivist for the tip (https://archive.org/post/1012493/wayback-how-to-deal-with-redirects).

   (I’m going through and fixing all the links in a decade of talks for Laura and myself on the Kitten version of the Small Technology Foundation site and most of the conference sites are either gone or don’t have archives so the Internet Archive is coming through again bigtime.)

   #InternetArchive #waybackMachine #archiving #redirects #tip

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     Johannes Hentschel (johentsch@hostux.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:06:54 JST Johannes Hentschel

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     @aral
     Another amazing feat I just learned about: https://scholar.archive.org/

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 15:07:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Johannes Hentschel

     @johentsch Nice :)