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2009/02/16 10:47:31 (permalink)

Websites that just vanish

So I decided to visit a site that I use the odd time, it tells you what songs are used in what adverts.. and it's just gone, pity as it was a great site... along with others I'd used over they years like liksang (who do import console games) and softseek who used to be very good for freeware things (thankfully filehippo is very decent)

I guess this is a bit of a rant, but hey it is a big annoyance when there is so much dross on the net that no one wants to see..

e..g. if you type in cakewalk's name wrong in the URL bar you get directed to something that isn't related.
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    jinga8
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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 12:42:18 (permalink)
    Well, you can probably look up anything from the past via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, at least.

    Oh and (at least in Firefox 3.0.6), I was redirected to www.cakewalk.com when I typed the following directly into the Address Bar; zakewalk, xakewalk, vakewalk, bakewalk, aakewalk, sakewalk, dakewalk gakewalk, qakewalk, eakewalk, and rakewalk. Basically the only left hand side letters that didn't redirect me were w, t, and f. WTF is up with that? I know that its not always the first letter that is misspelled, but I'm not going through every combi possible. Try it, you'll be like, WTF, man!?!?
    post edited by jinga8 - 2009/02/16 13:35:28

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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 13:31:35 (permalink)
    thanks Jinga, never saw that site before.

    alas in one case it was down to their ISP chucking a hissy fit.. and the other one was bought out... and the other one didn't like them selling import machines
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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 17:21:17 (permalink)
    Yeah Fog its inconsiderate of sites just to vanish like that, I hear it can happen to forum members too, why just the other day I .............................................................................<white noise>
    post edited by The Kiosk Project - 2009/02/16 17:22:07
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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 18:26:35 (permalink)

    Ol' Foggy's also gorn an' lost the web-site where you apply to represent your country in the Winter Olympics too



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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 18:28:36 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: jinga8

    Well, you can probably look up anything from the past via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, at least.



    Ya, the Wayback Machine is an incredible thing it sniffs around every website recording every move for posterity, so in twenty years time we'll be able to find the "Pass the salt? What do you think I am a radio?" joke anytime which is handy if anyone forgets it.

    In the future we'll be able to go back to the really old days where you could even go forward via the Wayforward Machine then where will we be? I'm never sure of what day it is anyway without the aid of a website.

    So if they record the whole internet every week how do we know what internet we're on? We could all be on a parallel internet where I was gonna say all this anyway because I already did...

    I want the old internet back I don't like this new one that may just be a recycled facsimilie of yesterdays news tomorrow.

    And besides where do they put all these different archived internets? And is the Wayback Machine recording itself? Will all that nostalgia cause a feedback loop where the howl of memories will drown out any current thought?
    post edited by Jonbouy - 2009/02/16 18:35:50

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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 18:50:38 (permalink)
    What about this one?

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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 20:13:08 (permalink)
    Oh no. This is worse than the big red dot.
    Am I in this thread, or the other one?

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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 20:14:17 (permalink)
    ORIGINAL: space_cowboy

    What about this one?


    Oh no, that must be one of them portals they speak of.

    I've noticed that every time I pass through it some seconds have elapsed, therefore I suggest that if anyone goes there it will be some time in the future when they get here.

    Hey a silly Coffee House forum and we can manipulate the universe, they'll never believe us.
    post edited by Jonbouy - 2009/02/16 20:20:17

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    RE: Websites that just vanish 2009/02/16 20:22:10 (permalink)

    ORIGINAL: SteveStrummerUK
    Ol' Foggy's also gorn an' lost the web-site where you apply to represent your country in the Winter Olympics too


    it was ..
    http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/

    it "was a" very good site, someone asked me about some advert music earlier, so looked.. and saw the host (not the person who made the site) had wiped it..

    don't worry I've filled in the forms... I've put myself in for a new event... beer drinking comp.. don't worry I made sure the bar / venue had a telly so I could watch the rest of ya
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