Spent 4 hours trying to fix a broken link on a 2003 Geocities fan page...

I found this old Homestar Runner tribute site last night that still loads fine except for one missing image. Turns out the link was pointing to a domain that expired in 2009 and I actually tried Wayback Machine for 2 hours before giving up. Has anybody else wasted way too much time trying to resurrect some random dead site asset?

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rivera.susan12d ago

Started poking around a dead Angelfire site about two years ago myself. It was some fan page for the band Weezer, and the whole thing was held together with broken image links and midi files that wouldn't play. I ended up getting totally sidetracked reading old guestbook entries for an hour and a half, completely forgot about fixing any of it.

avery_walker3012d ago

Honestly @rivera.susan I've been pulled into that same rabbit hole more times than I can count. Best advice is to save the guestbook pages as PDFs first so you can get your work done and still have the nostalgia later.