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Side rant: Sure would be nice if the Wayback Machine showed actual snapshots of web pages, instead of "hybrid" snapshots where they combine old with new (maybe
by josefresco 6y ago
Side rant: Sure would be nice if the Wayback Machine showed actual snapshots of web pages, instead of "hybrid" snapshots where they combine old with new (maybe it's a setting?). I recently horked a website, and thought to check the Wayback Machine. Curiously, an edit I made that day was showing on snapshots dating back several years. Until I discovered how the WBM worked, I was pulling my hair out.
- judge2020 6y agoThis is probably due to XHR's. The IA loads all JS, so if a website hard-codes the URL or does other complicated XHR stuff the IA might not be equipped to save the response for those, if they do at all.