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2 days agoNews publishers are blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
News organizations are blocking the Internet Archive's crawlers due to AI companies using archived content without permission.
The indie web began a few years after the end of GeoCities, which Yahoo shut down in 2009 (at least, in the US - GeoCities Japan managed to hang on until 2019). GeoCities was a free web hosting service that launched in 1994 and once hosted millions of personal HTML websites, from pop culture shrines to teachers' pages for their students (and truly everything in between).
Have you ever clicked on a link only to land on an empty webpage with the message "Error 404" or "404 Not Found?" If so, you're not alone. There are several reasons this can happen the simplest being a misspelled URL. But increasingly, the cause is that the page has been deleted or moved, sometimes intentionally. That's why DW Fact check has put together a guide to help you find deleted or altered content.