vga256 on Nostr: fellow waybackmachine users of a certain vintage: for those who remember, xoom.com of ...
fellow waybackmachine users of a certain vintage:
for those who remember, xoom.com of the 90s and 2000s was a free webspace provider among other things. hundreds of thousands of xoom members created their own homepages there. myself included.
paypal recently bought the xoom.com domain. they presumably put in a "do not archive" exclusion request to IA, who granted it.
the purpose of the exclusion request is to exclude URLs for the owners of the original *webspace*, NOT the new owners of a *domain name*.
the unfortunate consequence of this is that wbm has now excluded every single *.xoom.com/user/ homepage from existence. hundreds of thousands of homepages.
paypal does not own your childhood homepage just by virtue of buying a domain name. i assume this was an error made in haste at IA. anyone working at IA care to chime in - or better yet, correct this oversight?
#digiPres
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