Threads from the Past?
Is there way to look at threads from... lets say 2005/2006? I remember there was some kind of archive website that could bring up old Basilmarket pages. I've been curious a bit and wanting to see my threads from those two years haha.
July 7, 2012
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[quote=Pavchka]I don't know how exactly it works. :S It worked fine for my BasilID (I managed to crawl back to Apeil 21st 2006), but I don't know if works the same way for threads that have been deleted a long tim ago.[/quote]
It's like a Google Cache that doesn't replace older cached versions with newer ones. So basically, it sends a [technobabble thing] around to take metaphorical photos of pages, and saves it. Doesn't matter if the page no longer exists or has changed -- if it took the photo on 13 April 2009, then the 13 April 2009 snapshot on WM will show it as it was then. On the more frequently-crawled pages, WM will show that it took multiple snapshots on different dates, and you can even look at how a page has changed over time
Of course, if the images/CSS that the page references are no longer at the locations that it specified, then you'll just get the unstyled text and divs and so forth. And like Google Cache, WM doesn't (isn't able to) take snapshots of everything.
[quote=puretppc]I don't think it works. Tried to find the 1st ever BasilMarket thread by editing the thread number to 1 and it didn't show.[/quote]
I don't know how exactly it works. :S It worked fine for my BasilID (I managed to crawl back to Apeil 21st 2006), but I don't know if works the same way for threads that have been deleted a long tim ago.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061205102858/http://maplestory.nexon.net/
Oh god, good times...
http://web.archive.org/web/20051025234650/http://www.basilmarket.com/
When basil was about merching lol
[quote=chainedwind]If Wayback Machine had crawled it before the deletion, it wouldn't matter.
Wayback Machine can't crawl everything, though.[/quote]
Oh, I don't know then
[quote=DrHye]Could've been deleted/suspended for, or if the thread starter's account no longer exists, neither would the thread[/quote]
If Wayback Machine had crawled it before the deletion, it wouldn't matter.
Wayback Machine can't crawl everything, though.
[quote=puretppc]I don't think it works. Tried to find the 1st ever BasilMarket thread by editing the thread number to 1 and it didn't show.[/quote]
Could've been deleted/suspended for, or if the thread starter's account no longer exists, neither would the thread
@puretppc: It doesn't necessarily have everything archived.
[quote=Pavchka]The Wayback Machine. I just happened to be playing with it. XD [url=http://archive.org/web/web.php]Here[/url]
I was checking for the age of the Guild section (it's not archived, so it must be quite young)), because I can't remember it being added. I need orders from MrBasil on how to moderate it. People are currently using it as a recruitment section- and since the Merchanting section doesn't allow trading and auctioning, the Guild section should theoretically not allow recruitment. If it does, I just invalidly suspended someone. :S
Seriously, when was the thing added?[/quote]
I don't think it works. Tried to find the 1st ever BasilMarket thread by editing the thread number to 1 and it didn't show.
[quote=heyitsmexD]thank da lawd. this is amazing haha. thanks
first post i saw while randomly picking a date from 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20120707211839im_/http://www.basilmarket.com/screen/basilmarket_com-screen-4735-1.jpg
lmao[/quote]
Hahahaha, in my now broken computer I had a similar picture I saved from Basil back in the day. A random level 2X is standing in L Forest, there's a smega fight going on and somewhere in the middle a regular megaphone says "Snape kills Dumbledore"
@Squirteezy: Your interest unsettles me O_O
[quote=Pavchka]The Wayback Machine. I just happened to be playing with it. XD [url=http://archive.org/web/web.php]Here[/url]
I was checking for the age of the Guild section (it's not archived, so it must be quite young)), because I can't remember it being added. I need orders from MrBasil on how to moderate it. People are currently using it as a recruitment section- and since the Merchanting section doesn't allow trading and auctioning, the Guild section should theoretically not allow recruitment. If it does, I just invalidly suspended someone. :S
Seriously, when was the thing added?[/quote]
thank da lawd. this is amazing haha. thanks
first post i saw while randomly picking a date from 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20120707211839im_/http://www.basilmarket.com/screen/basilmarket_com-screen-4735-1.jpg
lmao
The Wayback Machine. I just happened to be playing with it. XD [url=http://archive.org/web/web.php]Here[/url]
I was checking for the age of the Guild section (it's not archived, so it must be quite young)), because I can't remember it being added. I need orders from MrBasil on how to moderate it. People are currently using it as a recruitment section- and since the Merchanting section doesn't allow trading and auctioning, the Guild section should theoretically not allow recruitment. If it does, I just invalidly suspended someone. :S
Seriously, when was the thing added?