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... and in 2019 the "digital.com" domain is apparently hosted by a site that can't handle the traffic of this article. SPECIAL BONUS: Their current robots.txt
by Thoreandan 8y ago
... and in 2019 the "digital.com" domain is apparently hosted by a site that can't handle the traffic of this article. SPECIAL BONUS: Their current robots.txt appears to be blocking the old Digital.com pages from the WayBack machine. Argh.
- Thoreandan 8y agoIt's apparently owned by a UK company called Quality Nonsense - https://qualitynonsense.com/portfolio/digital-com/ https://qualitynonsense.com/portfolio/digital-com/ - currently featuring such insightful content as "Error establishing a database connection".
- classichasclass 8y agoThey do at least acknowledge the history of the name, though you'll do some scrolling to see it: https://digital.com/about/ https://digital.com/about/ That said, being a nerd of a certain age range, I saw "digital.com" and I got very excited about something I didn't get when I actually clicked on the link ...
- icedchai 8y agoI still can't believe HP actually sold digital.com DEC / Digital is a huge part of computing history: PDP, VAX, Alpha.
- fencepost 8y agoThe Internet Archive stopped honoring robots.txt back in 2017 because "Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives" Not sure without a bit more digging whether they honor explicit rules for their crawler. Edit: (but a little looking at comments indicates that they don't, and notes that ia_archiver is Alexa, not the Internet Archive)
- Thoreandan 8y agoHmmm, and their robots.txt seems to not be at fault. I wonder if they excluded it to not overlap with Alta Vista, still it's tragic that digital.com isn't browsable in the wayback machine.
- fencepost 8y agoThis may be a question of age. DEC was acquired by Compaq in 1998, then the IA was only a couple years old.