Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11
In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:
- They used their captcha mechanism to have their end-users DDoS a party that they had a dispute with
- They altered archived content
Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.
Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.
For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.
What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):
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Posted in Power User, Internet, InternetArchive, WayBack machine, archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Archive Today controversy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted in BITNET Relay, Chat, Development, DuckDuckGo, eMail, Fun, gist, GitHub, Google, GoogleSearch, History, Internet, Java, Java Platform, Meme, Power User, Quotes, SearchEngines, SocialMedia, Software Development, Tomcat | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/03
With both the ever increasing amount of internet data, and ever increasing number of web sites pulling the plug, archiving them into the Internet Archive is ever more important.
The thread at [Wayback/Archive] Double Your Archiving Impact: Guide to Setting Up Your 2nd ArchiveTeam Warrior in VirtualBox (Windows) : Archiveteam has great tips on running ArchiveTeam Warrior instances, even running more than one on a machine.
It covers:
- Running in VirtualBox
- Running in docker
A third option is to run on ESXi which I have covered the ESXi quite a few times on my blog already. You can find the main post at Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, and all posts at wiert.me/category/ArchiveTeamWarrior.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, VMware, Infrastructure, Internet, VMware ESXi, Virtualization, VirtualBox, Cloud, InternetArchive, WayBack machine, Containers, Docker, ArchiveTeamWarrior | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/21
A long time ago, I wrote about Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs.
Well, not long after Embarcadero totally messed up their DocWiki installation, ditched all DocWiki history cand causing a multi-day DocWiki outage (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.), they also killed their (then still working) Docs server (containing all the Delphi 2007 and Delphi 2009 documentation).
That means the search strings in my previous blog post mentioned above do not work any more. The only way to find back that kind of documentation is through old blog posts (those usually are in the various Web Search Engine indexes), or through the Wayback Machine.
What Embarcadero also did not do is cooperate with the people at the Internet Archive to ensure the docs server was completely archived in the Wayback Machine. Since about Delphi 2010, their behaviour has been ticking boxes in the product feature matrices instead of tickling their users with great user experience including understanding what ensuring history is available actually means.
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Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Development, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Software Development, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/16
Ever since Chris Hesik spoke on “RAD Studio 2010 what’s new in the IDE debugger”, wanted to write a blog post about it.
Still haven’t found time to do that in depth, but it’s important to at least jot a few notes, so let’s start with the 20111020 conference session notes.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/01
Posted in Amazon S3, Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., Apple, AWS Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Apps, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure, Internet, Missed Schedule, Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/21
Reminder to self: [Wayback/Archive] Hacker Hosting
HackerHosting biedt Hackers, die samenkomen in
hackerspaces, in
hotels en op
campings de mogelijkheid om te genieten van hoge kwaliteit hosting in Nederland, tegen een tarief waarvoor zelfs ‘kippenschuur-hosters’ en ‘brandgevaarlijke-datacenter-hosters’ het niet doen.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Angry Nerds 278 – Corrigendum – YouTube
--jeroern
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/10
I mention dead links a lot, and always try to archive content before scheduling it in a blog post.
No different for [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral, which provides background information about how the short lifespan of most URLs.
Their 2024 publication was a poster in PNG and PTTX format (linked below under the abstract), so I created this PDF out of it:
Abstract
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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, Internet, LifeHacker, Power User, Web Browsers, WWW - the World Wide Web of information | Leave a Comment »
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