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Techrights Archives: How to Retrieve Very Old Articles, Including References That Are Now Missing (Dead Sites)

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Summary: How to find old articles of the Techrights blog and what to do in case some external references become missing/invalid (Internet Archive to the rescue, sometimes)

LATER this year we turn 15 and we're stronger as well as more influential than ever before, both as a campaign/community and a Web site. If you've seen the controversy over Raspberry Pi and Microsoft this past week, you have Techrights to thank. It was us who broke the story. It was us who explained and exposed this scandal.



In 2014 we started exposing EPO corruption. It had so much impact that Benoît Battistelli decided to block/prevent all EPO employees from accessing the site (of course they could still access it from personal devices and from their homes). António Campinos maintains this senseless act of censorship and with our adoption of IPFS we're going to become a lot more difficult to censor.

Bad Luck Biden: All set for the demise of the WebOnce upon a time IP Kat also wrote about EPO corruption, but EPO sanctions and threats put an end to it. Earlier today IPKat did more ads for the EPO. Authored by Anastasiia Kyrylenko, this one said: "On February 25, the EPO will conduct the “High-growth technology business forum: Focus on Europe”, dedicated to the SME perspective on intellectual property. The programme is available following the link. Registration is free of charge and open until February 18."

Notice how from exposing the EPO's abuses they've turned into a megaphone of EPO propaganda. Quite the stunning reversal (but not the same authors anymore!).

"One challenge we've long had is organising all the information amassed over time."By World Wide Web standards we've had a rather long and colourful history. We're soon reaching the 30,000th blog post (we will have reached that by spring for sure) and we suppose we have the stability required to sustain the site for at least another decade. Even if the World Wide Web collapses, we're already moving ahead and beyond it (IPFS is just part of that). We're very difficult to censor and infiltrate (some have tried).

The above video focuses on ways to retrieve old articles of Techrights. It's a lot easier to do (than most people realise), even without Wiki indexes and search. One challenge we've long had is organising all the information amassed over time. It's much trickier than backup regimen, automation, DDOS protection and so on.

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