TIL that old Geocities page about 90s pixel art actually lived on in the Wayback Machine for years after I thought it was gone

I spent like 4 hours last night hunting down a link I saved in 2015 to some random person's Geocities tribute to 90s pixel art. The original domain went dark around 2018, and I figured it was toast. But I dug through archive.org and found a cached version from 2020 that still had all the little animations and the weird pink background. It took me way longer than I thought because the URL was buried in an old bookmark folder I hadn't touched in years. The best part was seeing the author's email address still listed, and I actually sent a message to see if they're still around. Has anyone else had luck reviving a dead link from the old web like that?

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wesley87314d ago

I found a dead link from my MySpace page once and honestly that was a mistake.

maxp6814d ago

Nah, dead links aren't even the worst part. It's when you actually find the page and see some of the old comments or the stuff you posted back then. That's the real landmine.