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by firefoxd 29 days ago
There was a website that I had quoted a long time ago. The author said something like "when the robots are taking over the world, don't panic. Buy a robot." I loved it. So I linked to it on my old blog. Then years later, I went to the source only to find that the page returned a 404. So I linked to the wayback machine instead. But then, it was removed from the archive.org. I can't even remember the name of the website at this point, just that it had the word "café" in it.

Anyway, all this to say that since there are no sources for this quote, then I'm the new original source. You can quote me on that.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/117370206/You-made-thisI-m...

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I have seen "That which does not kill us, has made its last mistake" Attributed to myself, through a similar process.

I think I had it in my Usenet sig for a while,and eventually they became the oldest records people could find of it.

Maybe your own site from when the link was present has been archived by the Internet Archive. I'd give it a try, maybe you can recover that link at least
> But then, it was removed from the archive.org

wtf

EzBoard used to be on Archive.org, then they nuked the whole thing.

I know I'm not crazy. Someone else mentioned this as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/uxojh5/ezboard...

Edit: wait, it's back now? I need to go look up the old communities I used to be in .

https://forums.mfgg.net/thread-2932.html

Websites can request to be removed. The data is still kept though
Many of my old bookmarked urls have been removed from IA. Strangely, it's only some versions. If you go back through old twitter urls, for instance.