Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/15
I forgot where I originally downloaded bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx from, but for posterity, here it is:
[Wayback] bitnet-links-Bitnet-Network-Definition-verison-89.xlsx
Related blog posts:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/05
Last year I learned about [Wayback/Archive] Wayback Machine – Chrome Web Store via a Twitter thread starting at
[Wayback/Archive] Craig Silverman on Twitter: “The Wayback Machine Chrome extension got a big update. Every journalist & researcher should install it ASAP! Faster URL archiving w/ customization, access to yr personal archive, and it tells you if the page you’re on has already been archived, etc. #osint”
I saved the full thread at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @CraigSilverman on Thread Reader App:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/10
A while ago, Jilles found out why not to use VirtualBox: [Wayback/Archive] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “@jpluimers Ik wil op basis van wat de Arch community schreeuwt; “Virtualbox is stom, als je geen hyper-v gebruikt vraag je om problemen”, HYPER-V maar gaan proberen.” / Twitter
The biggest problem is that VirtualBox seems to be developed ant tested for the happy path, not the failing path.
Which means that when you use it for less common scenarios, it will often fail in mysterious ways.
Back in Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, I already mentioned this:
Totally agreeing with Kristian Kohntopp, I do not understand why people use VirtualBox at all: I just run in too much issues like [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Hint: Wenn die Installation einer Linux-Distro in Virtualbox mit wechselnden, unbekannten Fehlern scheitert, hilft es, stattdessen einmal VMware Workstation oder kvm zu probieren. In meinem Fall hat es dann *jedes* *einzelne* *Mal* mit *demselben* Iso geklappt.”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/04
A while ago, while writing last weeks post XPath based bookmarklets for Archive.is: more JavaScript fiddling!, I needed the most recent WayBack Machine archival of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript
I vaguely remembered replacing the normal timestamp with a 3 and 13 zeros, so I tried this
https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript
And indeed, it did a HTTP 302 redirect to
https://web.archive.org/web/20220312161117/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Introduction_to_using_XPath_in_JavaScript
So I quickly made this bookmarklet:
javascript:location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/'+document.location.href;
Then I created another one for getting the screenshot:
javascript:location=location.href.replace(/^https:\/\/web\.archive\.org\/save\/http/,'https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/http')
That works for screenshots archived with a Wayback Machine account, as these are related because of the inserted http://web.archive.org/screenshot/ fragment:
web.archive.org/web/20230104151756/https://twitter.com/jpluimers/status/1594673785277501441web.archive.org/web/20230104151804/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://twitter.com/jpluimers/status/1594673785277501441Since the Wayback Machine always looks for the closest savet timestamp, it does not matter the timestamps in these archived pages have a slight mismatch.
20231006: I edited this section referring two prior blog posts instead of one because of [Wayback/Archive] pbeccard: “@wiert @oliof You can also use…” – Mastodon (clearly showing that Mastodon like any social media platform does mangle backtick quoted code):
@wiert @oliof You can also use `javascript:location.href=’https://web.archive.org/web/*/’+document.location.href;` to get the overview. I find this quite useful since I often want an older version of a page.
And later in the reply chain:
[Wayback/Archive] pbeccard: “@wiert @oliof Ah, I thought b…” – Mastodon
@wiert @oliof Ah, I thought by now that maybe Markdown is supported. I pulled the bookmarklet out of my bookmarklet bookmark folder. Here is a copy: https://gist.github.com/corppneq/d61e3…
I also found back two blog posts:
[Wayback/Archive] http://www.gyford.com/misc/wayback.html
WayBack:
javascript:location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location.href;
I also archived this referred page: [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklets.com – What’s New.
JavaScript bookmarklet to replace part of the WayBack machine URL:
A bookmarklet that goes to the latest rendered saved version (sometimes saved versions have not been rendered yet, so you get the latest available render):
- from: https://web.archive.org/save/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2689553/bookmarklet-to-edit-current-url/2689581#2689581
- to: https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2689553/bookmarklet-to-edit-current-url/2689581#2689581
javascript:location=location.href.replace(/^https:\/\/web\.archive\.org\/save\/http/,'https://web.archive.org/web/30000000000000/http')The WayBack Machine uses a 14-position ID and tries to find the render that is the most close by. This is the format of the ID:
yyyymmddhhmmssThis is granular enough, as the WayBack machine only allows new saves that are usually 30+ minutes apart.
(Note that period by now seems to be increased from 30+ minutes to 45+ minutes)
It also found back this post having the same huge number: 0.30000000000000004.com. How cool is WordPress search (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/15
This is a follow-up to Bookmarklets for Archive.is and the WayBack Machine to go to the original page.
Archive.is has two kinds of URLs:
You get the first URL both after archiving and when browsing from an archived page to another archived page (if it is not archived you will go the unarchived full page URL).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/10
There are various posts indicating part or all of DPreview will be archived:
I wonder how accessible each form of archive will be. The last entry in the above list is very accessible, but only has the camera data (which is a very important aspect, but do not underestimate the forum with millions of posts either).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/13
I have had the below Archive.is spinner “Loading” without any progress indication on a couple of URLs the last few months and I think they are tied to having special characters in the URL-to-be-archived.
My usual workaround was to first archive in the Wayback Machine, then archive the resulting URL in Archive.is as it would automatically follow the path up to the original URL,
That of course failed when https://web.archive.org/web/*/vx-underground.org did not want to save in Archive.is: either these would give an eternal spinner on the “Loading” page no matter the browser you were using either the escaped %2A or *:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/20
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Interactive @waybackmachine achievement unlocked while manually archiving 4 pages. web.archive.org/429.html“.
The below error took a few hours to recover from. The submitted URLs were indeed already archived when checking if they were.
It was about the URLs in my blog post earlier today: Vanaf 1 juli kost opheffen oude spaarrekening EUR 75, dus wees er snel bij: Beëindig je oude spaarproduct – ING – Sparen.
I really wish Archive.org had a status page to show system status, as right now you have to guess by pages like below about their status.
You can find the error page at [Archive] https://web.archive.org/429.html (but not all HTTP response codes have pages like this and some respond in a different way like [Archive] https://web.archive.org/404.html).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22
The VMware KB is notoriously bad into being saved in the WayBack Machine: saved links hardly render at all because of the VMware KB dynamic page loading structure.
But VMware KB articles expire, so a lot of web-pages point to non-existing links and end up through redirections at [Archive.is] https://kb.vmware.com/s/pagenotfound.
Below are a few link forms of the same VMware KB 2011818 article that vanished from the regular web. The first is saved in the WayBack Machine (but does not render), the second is saved and does render after a redirect to a saved third form, the most recent saved fourth form is actually a 404-error redirecting to a prior third form.
The first link form does archive as a rendered page in Archive.is if is is archived. t wasn’t, so the current archived version points to the “pagenotfound” page mentioned above.
Sometimes you have to dig deeper, as not all rendering archived versions contain actual content.
Here the first one is not even archived, the other ones are, but none of them have actual usable content:
This means you have to dig further in history:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/17
I know that digital accessibility does not come for free, but it is mandatory in Europe for at least documents and web-sites provided by government and semi-government as per [Wayback] EN 301 549 – Wikipedia
EN 301 549 is a European standard for digital accessibility. It specifies requirements for information and communications technology to be accessible for people with disabilities.
I bumped into numerous tab-order issues when filling out CIZ forms. This makes it way harder for my, as now I require a mouse despite having RSI symptoms for some 30+ years.
So, for my link archive so I can document that all these forms have severe tab-order issues (some fields are not even accessible by keyboard, are being emptied when you leave the field, or not even accessible by mouse): [Wayback] Formulieren – CIZ
Doet u een aanvraag bij het CIZ? Op deze pagina vindt u een overzicht van onze formulieren, zoals een machtigingsformulier en het Wlz-aanvraagformulier.
Hopefully by now the forms have been fixed.
Via:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 