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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rumpig on July 20, 2018, 10:17:14 AM
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Question for the tech savvy.......if stuff posted on the web is supposably there forever, how does one go about finding it?
Reason for the question is that my daughter wants to get a copy of the old trip reports I have done on various forums over the years, but atleast one of those forums (Overlander) doesn't exist anymore. My thinking is the particular trip report she wants from there is gone and can't be retrieved, but interested to hear if that's not the case. :cheers:
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Use archive.org
If you know roughly the date and the URL then you can find it there.
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Use archive.org
If you know roughly the date and the URL then you can find it there.
thanks mate....might have to try hard and recall what year it was now. It's an old report I did on Overlander forum when we visited Boonoo Boonoo National Park that she is seeking, will see how we go :cheers:
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This article seems to explain it pretty well
https://askleo.com/the-internet-is-forever-except-when-its-not/
The TLDR is that most things are probably still out there, but actually "finding it" is a different story.
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Good luck... some are easy to 'wayback' - others just dont exist.
if they are attachments and sometimes on page 2 on forums, wayback doesnt store that.
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So from what i can work out, the trip report was done in June of 2009 on Overlander forum, i called it "Around Stanthorpe and Tenterfield Are (finally finished)"......i've managed to find the main trip report page but can't seem to open my thread....Grrrrrr.
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So from what i can work out, the trip report was done in June of 2009 on Overlander forum, i called it "Around Stanthorpe and Tenterfield Are (finally finished)"......i've managed to find the main trip report page but can't seem to open my thread....Grrrrrr.
Got the link?
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Page 1:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120428011357/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120428011357/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924)
Page 2:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120428004539/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924&start=15 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120428004539/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924&start=15)
Hope that helps!
(I'm a stubborn bugger, and have got used to how archive.org works, so finding things isn't too bad)
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Page 1:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120428011357/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120428011357/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924)
Page 2:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120428004539/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924&start=15 (https://web.archive.org/web/20120428004539/http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=60924&start=15)
Hope that helps!
(I'm a stubborn bugger, and have got used to how archive.org works, so finding things isn't too bad)
your a legend mate :cheers: very much appreciated. I had no idea what I was doing, was lucky enough to have someone start me off in the right direction to help find the first part that I did, the wife had it noted in her Facebook that the trip was in 2009 which helped big time.
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Got the link?
yeah I did have it, but Ed has sorted it already :cheers: anyhow