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		I_got_fifty on July 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In the 1950s, one could buy a miniature electron m... Yes, which is why we have Archive.org.

kragen on July 13, 2009 [–]

For now. It's a wonderful service and I hope it continues for a long time, but you shouldn't depend on it to save any particular thing, and it's much harder to find things in archive.org than on the open web. I'm still grieving over the loss of "Networked PostScript Printer Installation as Illustrated Through Interpretive Dance".

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