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Bekki Doll |
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A cynical yet secular shiny retrogamer, thread ressurector and fan of the word "gay".
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Reged: 01/28/12
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Posts: 771
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Loc: Freeport, PA
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Re: Why did the original mame.net close?
04/28/12 04:44 PM
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That's really cool and all to see the old site. It's too bad that the threads are unreadable. Damn I would enjoy reading what took place back in the day.
Some are readable and some aren't which is normal for the Wayback Machine. You never know what is archived. That is until a sysadmin uses a robots.txt file to block the spider.
Interesting case: I was browsing an archived site one day with no problems. The next day the archived pages were blocked because the spider finally hit a site's newly-created robots.txt file. Fortunately I was able to guess the http URL syntax on the current site's server and was able to go and archive the site's discussion archives directly since it was behind a php-based paywall.
I got the subdirectories to display and was able to FlashGot them all, even when the files were moved from where they used to be when the site was archived via Wayback. Now I have my own personal mirror. Some creative guessing means that a paywall can easily be circumvented. And Wayback can be used to get an idea of the structure of an old site that was moved to a new location. :-)
I won't go into specific details on how I did it, the exact location and other important stuff for I don't want to get either myself or anyone else here in trouble. Don't PM me about it, either. Anyone who knows how that URL location field within their browser can be used can do this.
--Bekki
Combating functional illiteracy with latex-clad drama since the '80s, because old video games rule!
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