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by jp-x-g 1026 days ago
I think that websites as old as bash.org ought to just release database dumps so that other people have a fair shot at getting them back when they croak, sua sponte, without the sustained active cooperation of the most-recent maintainers. There are a number of websites that have lasted for decades because of this (and having the contents released CC0 doesn't hurt either, of course).