Comments on: Short memory http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79 A lawyer and a programmer walk into a bar... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 22:15:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marguerite Valarie Glenn http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-431 Marguerite Valarie Glenn Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:33:34 +0000 http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79#comment-431 Brillant! Just what I was looking for! Brillant! Just what I was looking for!

]]> By: Anthony_ http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-28 Anthony_ Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:52:15 +0000 http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79#comment-28 Kinda on topic....no more Xbox original games on Live http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2010/02/05/gh789.aspx Kinda on topic….no more Xbox original games on Live

http://gamerscoreblog.com/press/archive/2010/02/05/gh789.aspx

]]> By: Jason http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79&cpage=1#comment-21 Jason Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:26:52 +0000 http://www.restorerestartquit.com/?p=79#comment-21 One of the reasons articles go missing on websites is that content is stored in databases, and the database gets reused / dumped / migrated as the site moves from version to version and developer to developer. Sometimes the content that was in a .html file is now served from a database run by a .php script. What you might find when you get a 404 is that if you go to the front page of the site you were looking at and search for the content instead of aborting your search, you'll find it in a new location. URL death *is* a huge problem. It means that Google's index might be out of date seconds after its bot crawls a site, and sites like metacritic that store links to other sites over a span of years have major problems with data for old games. I still have most of my Amiga mags from the early 90s in a cupboard at home ... I don't use an Amiga any more and I haven't looked at the magazines in years... but I don't want to get rid of them, because there's so little of that information around online. Sigh. One of the reasons articles go missing on websites is that content is stored in databases, and the database gets reused / dumped / migrated as the site moves from version to version and developer to developer. Sometimes the content that was in a .html file is now served from a database run by a .php script.

What you might find when you get a 404 is that if you go to the front page of the site you were looking at and search for the content instead of aborting your search, you’ll find it in a new location.

URL death *is* a huge problem. It means that Google’s index might be out of date seconds after its bot crawls a site, and sites like metacritic that store links to other sites over a span of years have major problems with data for old games.

I still have most of my Amiga mags from the early 90s in a cupboard at home … I don’t use an Amiga any more and I haven’t looked at the magazines in years… but I don’t want to get rid of them, because there’s so little of that information around online. Sigh.

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