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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
25 days ago
- Pew Research Center found 38% of 2013 webpages and 25% of 2013-2023 sampled pages are now inaccessible.
- Wayback Machine rescues about 15% of otherwise dead pages, reducing vanished URLs from 25% to 10% in Pew's dataset.
- Studies show increasing link rot, but web archives like Wayback Machine mitigate loss by archiving and rescuing dead content.
Ramp.com Website Is a Prompt
17 days ago
- Archive Team preserves data from websites at risk to maintain conversations and insights.
- Projects range from single volunteers to large groups saving terabytes of user-created data.
- Collections, hosted by the Internet Archive, are accessible via the Wayback Machine.
- Archive Team Panic Downloads serve as emergency backups for endangered websites.
- ArchiveBot, operated via IRC commands, allows archiving with operator permissions.
Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
13 days ago
- GlitchyZorua aimed to archive the Ibiblio Icon Browser's thousands of GIF icons from the 1990s, but faced challenges due to server-side imagemaps.
- The site used server-side imagemaps instead of client-side ones, hiding direct URLs for icons, making bulk downloading difficult without manual clicking.
- A method was devised to infer hit areas based on a grid layout (72×89 pixels per icon) and generate URLs to fetch icons via HTTP HEAD requests and redirects.
- All icons were successfully downloaded and republished on a new static website with pagination and search, improving accessibility and archiving.
- The approach avoided expensive HTTP round-trips common in older web protocols, though licensing remains unclear under fair-use doctrines of the time.

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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

Ramp.com Website Is a Prompt

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs