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It's on topic with the Wayback Machine involvement.
by quantized 12y ago
It's on topic with the Wayback Machine involvement.
- greglindahl 12y agoYes, and I'm glad that I was allowed to change the title of the article to indicate the reason why this is relevant to HN. Edit2: and now the title got reverted to the article title, which obscures what's interesting to HN readers. Oh well, inflexible policy in action. EDIT: Given the poor quality of the discussion, I now regret posting this link. Very little discussion of the Wayback machine and how this is a new and interesting way to collect information, and lots of off-topic stuff on the right to be forgotten or non-wayback-machine-related items about this incident.
- adobriyan 12y agoReminds me of 'add "over the Internet" and patent' tactics.
- dang 12y agoOk, we'll change the title back again. I don't think this thread was destined to be very substantive, though. The topic is too hot, for more than one meaning of "hot".
- greglindahl 12y agoThanks, dang. In hindsight, yeah, this was not a good thing to post, even if it is very interesting that the Wayback Machine can play this kind of role.
- dang 12y agoWe do sometimes edit mainstream press headlines to replace a generic phrase (like "web") with a technical name (in this case, "wayback machine" or maybe "internet archive") that HN readers are comfortable with. So your edit was fine. We just didn't notice that right away.
- wglb 12y agoI found this to be the most interesting posts on the subject.