| Ian Hickson's original post lives on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine here: <https://web.archive.org/web/20130913091125/https://plus.goog...> Raw URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20130913091125/https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/SiLdNL9MsFw
For those wondering how I found this ...There was an attempt to preserve G+ content, and however heroic it was far less successful than I'd have liked. The two key parts are the UserID and the PostID. That's "107429617152575897589" and "SiLdNL9MsFw" respectively. I found Ian's G+ UserID from an archive of his homepage, here: <https://web.archive.org/web/20120214010013/http://ian.hixie....> That links to: https://web.archive.org/web/20120214010013/http://ian.hixie.ch/+
Which redirects to https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts
And those paying close attention will of course immediately recognise the highly distinguishing 21 digit string "107429617152575897589", a/k/a Ian Hickson's G+ userID / UUID.Google+ placed all posts under the '/posts' URL segment, and has a wildcard syntax for searching for all captures under a given URL: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/*
Which you can access directly here: <https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://plus.google.com/107429...>.Going through those individually, I eventually turned up the original link. It's also possible to see the first 2-ish 'graphs of the post by looking at captures of Ian's G+ profile page. Unfortunately, there is no direct link to the full post from this view, though if you view source you can find the post-ID, notably in the JSON data at the top of the post following "AF_initDataCallback". I'd turned it up by going sequentially through the captured posts above however, and only discovered that the postID is actually on the Profile page afterwards. The two (partial) 'graphs begin with: Occasionally, people e-mail me to say something along the lines of "I've come up with something to replace HTML!"... <https://web.archive.org/web/20121112102441/https://plus.goog...> Oh, and the Internet Archive is one of the few parts of the Internet which do not precisely suck. If you can send them love, or better, money, please do. |