[lokii]

As probably many of you know the Internet Archive collects snapshots of popular web sites so that the historical internet is preserved to some degree. Here is the problem when the owner of a domain sets the robots.txt (see Wikipedia: Robots exclusion standard) to disallow web crawling the Internet Archive makes all its copies of websites ever hosted on this domain inaccessible. Though don't panic yet, as far as I know it doesn't actually delete them.

Well, that happened to fasa.com: http://fasa.com/robots.txt

Putting the old FASA homepage beyond our reach: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.fasa.com

Assuming this doesn't somehow sort itself out, what to do? I sure wasn't anxious enough to make a backup.

[忍]

What about http://fasagames.com/

[AJCarrington]

What about http://fasagames.com/

Completely different company, AFAIK.

[Marzhin]

What about http://fasagames.com/

Completely different company, AFAIK.

FASA Games is essentially a rebranded Redbrick Limited, after they were bought by FASA Corporation when the latter wished to get back into the publishing business a couple of years ago. So they are FASA, but not really the old FASA.

[lokii]

You can look at the archived versions of fasagames.com. They start in 2012, so either the domain was not registered before or it didn't generate enough traffic for the Internet Archive to meet the threshold for collection. In any case the old fasa homepage was only hosted under fasa.com. As far as I know there was no alternative domain.

[lokii]

And there goes shadowrun4.com, at least for now.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.shadowrun4.com
http://www.shadowrun4.com/robots.txt

[Sengir]

Yep, just encountered that problem...does anybody still have the old Tempo shadowtalk on their disk?

[DeathStrobe]

If anyone has any of the older content in an easy to copy and paste format, you should probably toss a copy of it on the shadowrun wikia. It's the reason I put a few of Tom Dowd's short fiction up there, because I knew one day, it wouldn't be out there forever.

While its always possible that wikia will go down someday, I'd like to believe it'll be around the longest at the least.

[忍]

Yep, just encountered that problem...does anybody still have the old Tempo shadowtalk on their disk?

By what do you refer to?

[Sengir]

If anyone has any of the older content in an easy to copy and paste format, you should probably toss a copy of it on the shadowrun wikia. It's the reason I put a few of Tom Dowd's short fiction up there, because I knew one day, it wouldn't be out there forever.

While its always possible that wikia will go down someday, I'd like to believe it'll be around the longest at the least.

At least there is a good chance that the official site and the wiki will not go down at once...

[lokii]

So, right now the fasa.com copy of the Archive is accessible again. The domain's current robots.txt hasn't actually changed. I wrote an email to the Archive a while back. While they have not responded, it might have helped. Anyway if you want to save something from the old website (look to the 1990s), now would be the time.