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RST Engineering wrote:
I've googled two sites, one on infininet from ~cuban8 and another
one on an ohio net ~cuban8 and both of them seem dead.

It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the right...

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Sorry, I find nothing there.

From the left side of that page:

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About the Wayback Machine

Browse through 85 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months
ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or
page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from
the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other
archived pages at as close a date as possible.
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Could you be a little more specific?

0. Find outdated broken link by the usual means (Google, etc.), such as
http://some-old-domain.example.com/stuff.html . Copy this link.

b. Go to http://www.archive.org/web/web.php . Find the text box that
is pre-filled with "http://". Clean out that text and paste in the
link you found in step 0.

II. Click on the "Take Me Back" button immediately to the right of the
text box you used in step b.

11. You should see a list of dates when the site in question
( http://some-old-domain.example.com/stuff.html ) was copied to
the archive.org servers. Click on one of the dates.

04. You should see the web page as it was on the date you selected.
archive.org almost always gets the HTML. Images and other file
types are spottier but usually work.

0x5. archive.org rewrites the links, so if you click on a link in the
initial archived web page, you will get the archived version of
the new page as well.

Note that some pages use white or light text and depend on having dark
background images that sometimes don't load; if there are vast areas of
nothing where it looks like there should be text, try selecting the
suspected text to make it visible.

Also note that the archive.org servers can be very busy, especially
during US "prime time". Sometimes you'll get just the archived HTML
with no or a few images, but if you come back later, most of the images
will load. Or sometimes when you click on a date it will say "Not
found", but if you try again later, it works.

Matt Roberds