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by freshair 1871 days ago
Maybe my grandchildren will somehow have better luck than I did. Archive.org doesn't have several forums I used to post on. I'd like to get copies of my old posts, but gave up on that years ago. I did manage to track down the owner of one of the forums, but he had no backups.

"Everything stays on the internet forever" is a good cautionary principle, but isn't a strict reality.