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Fixing Broken Links With the Internet Archive

Posted by Soulskill on from the maintain-URIs-or-T.B-L.-will-beat-you-up dept.

eggboard writes "The Internet Archive has copies of Web pages corresponding to 378 billion URLs. It's working on several efforts, some of them quite recent, to help deter or assist with link rot, when links go bad. Through an API for developers, WordPress integration, a Chrome plug-in, and a JavaScript lookup, the Archive hopes to help people find at least the most recent copy of a missing or deleted page. More ambitiously, they instantly cache any link added to Wikipedia, and want to become integrated into browsers as a fallback rather than showing a 404 page."

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  1. Re:Please no? by Mashdar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're absolutely right. Fuck me for wanting to read that article on first wort hopping from three years ago. What was I thinking?