That Geocities page about dial-up sounds I swore I saved... gone now

I had this old cached version of a site that catalogued every modem handshake noise and what it meant, saved it on a hard drive that died in 2019 during a move out of Phoenix. Tried finding it on Wayback this week and it's completely purged, not even a snippet. Anyone else keep backups of weird niche pages that turned out to be the only copy left?

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keith_singh16d ago

Man, my buddy Rick had the same thing happen with a fan site for an old PC game. He archived every forum post and patch note on a burned CD that got melted in his car trunk during a Vegas summer. Wayback has the front page but all the actual guides and links are dead, so that disc was the only real record and it's gone for good.