ianslife (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jonnysfriendian) wrote,@ 2005-11-27 23:52:00 |
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All hail the way back web
I lost a large chunk of today demonstrating to myself that I shouldn't throw out my 2000 vintage scanner, including making sure I had a copy of the drivers. The install CD (itself a quick save-to-disk by the seller) was unreadable. (NB to anyone using CDs as archive storage: my CDs fail much more often than my hard disks). The manufacturer was long gone, and their website taken over by one of those auto-directory services who only serve to pollute the search engines and sell google ads.
Then I remembered "Way Back Web" which mildlydiverting had told me about; and after some sifting and searching of URLs (the main page being an unhelpful redirect to a dead shopping cart), I found ...
http://web.archive.org/web/200104102106
web.archive.org is *good*
I lost a large chunk of today demonstrating to myself that I shouldn't throw out my 2000 vintage scanner, including making sure I had a copy of the drivers. The install CD (itself a quick save-to-disk by the seller) was unreadable. (NB to anyone using CDs as archive storage: my CDs fail much more often than my hard disks). The manufacturer was long gone, and their website taken over by one of those auto-directory services who only serve to pollute the search engines and sell google ads.
Then I remembered "Way Back Web" which mildlydiverting had told me about; and after some sifting and searching of URLs (the main page being an unhelpful redirect to a dead shopping cart), I found ...
http://web.archive.org/web/200104102106
web.archive.org is *good*
