[atribecalledqst]

Before I RTFA, I was wondering if this would be about trying to find a way to include Wayback Machine results in search. Searching the Wayback Machine is always such a nightmare, and wouldn't it be nice if your search turned up that long-dead 1997 web page that has the exact answer for what you're looking for...

(minor use case I had recently was I was trying to find old Japanese blogs for Tamagotchis, which I gather there were a ton of in the 90s but almost none survive today - imagine if I could get those instead of the 1,000,000 sites just trying to sell them to me)

[Lammy]

Kagi has this feature, “Blast From The Past” https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-features#:~:text=Interesting%20fi...

[marginalia_nu]

They're likely only serving previously accessible domains already in their index as wayback machine links, which is neat, but doesn't really solve the problem of indexing the wayback machine in a broader sense.

Would be a very nice feature to have indeed, though the data is a bit too inaccessible to index as far as I can tell (even though I've not given it any serious effort, so maybe it is?)

[Lammy]

I kinda consider that a feature and not a bug. If it were easier to find all the really deep stuff in the Wayback Machine, people would be trying to censor it all the time. I like being able to spear-fish my way into the deep shit by finding layers of URI references in other archived pages.

[guestbest]

The Usenet was considered a better place to store data about a topic for a year than a website because the interactive format allowed other people to comment. There was only cgi guestbooks which pale in comparison to a newsreader. People didn’t think back then about keeping information around forever because books were still the primary way information was captured, retained and transferred

[pabs3]

Would be great if Marginalia would be feeding crawl data to the Wayback Machine too.

[cosmicgadget]

Agreed, it'd be neat to test links on the fly and substitute wayback links if they are dead and cached information if there is no snapshot.

[GJim]

> 1,000,000 sites just trying to sell

Welcome to the modern internet.