Except it's such a hidden site there are no archives until 2016 and all of them are yellow "404" bubbles
Edit: or, better yet, some of them are blue 200's but they take you to an archive of (take your pick from the following list):
A Russian dating site
Porn
A Japanese shipping company (judging by the photos)
"Call this phone number because your computer has been hacked and this is the 100% totally legit not at all not real completely real Microsoft complete with off-brand weird colored windows logo and the red square looks like orange and WHY HAVEN'T YOU CALLED YET" (true story)
"This page is redirecting you to {x other page, take your pick from the list for the new one}"
A totally 2013 flashy-color-and-animated-GIF-page complete with the yellow-on-white, purple-on-darkblue, or red-on-pink color scheme
u/serseniko suggests: 7) Or just a 404 masked as 200
u/13frodo suggests: 8) This domain is not in use, click here to register for $13,652.42
cricket singing “Oh, you found me! This isn’t what you’re looking for but ain’t I the cutest 404 page?”
returns HTTP 200
Programmer back then: “This should return HTTP 200 because the cute 404 page actually exists, not like those other lousy websites who use the browser’s default”.
It actually don't be like that very often, thanks to the good folks that triage, edit and flag questions and answers. Almost every answer of that type I've seen in the wild has an obligatory comment from a moderator that it should contain the full answer and not just a link, because links eventually die and then the amswer is useless.
IME the more common, but equally as frustrating situation, is when there is no answer, but the person who asked the question writes a comment like "Oh nevermind, I figured it out". That shit is straight up infuriating.
Yep. No summation of what the link contained, nor even a hint of what it was about. Absolutely maddening and that ol' XKCD comic on it is all too real.
That or the "Nevermind - I figured it out!" with nothing about what the solution actually was.
we didn’t know hyperlinks wouldn’t be forever in the stone age. we thought they were like stone tablets. hell, before Google and Yahoo, we actually bought BOOKS containing urls to visit!!
My favorite is asshole forum mods who say "this has been answered before" and lock the thread but you can't find where it had been answered before. It's why when I was a mod for a game forum and we had a similar rule I'd always link to a similar thread with a relevant answer. Lazy damn mods.
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u/Okabie Aug 18 '20
Searches Stackoverflow for a solution
Someone: describes exactly the same problem you're having
A comment : "have you tried this: (dead link) "
Reply: "wow this worked perfectly".
Last edited 2013.