[lincolnwebs]

I now own a vibrant community website, started in 2000, that was compromised & erased in 2003. The previous owner had no backups. Hundreds of articles, tens of thousands of forum discussions, and hundreds of thousands comments were lost. We regrouped, and rebuilt the community. Archive.org was the only record left of any of the content, and we grabbed & distributed lost member avatars to quickly make the new site feel like home. I still reference it from time to time to piece together gaps in our history.

If the Internet has any institutions at all, Archive.org is first among them. Donation sent.

[bad_user]

Also see the famous case of Jeff Atwood losing and recovering the articles from codinghorror.com and blog.stackoverflow.com ...

[1] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12065/recovering-...

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/international-backu...