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it is interesting that the archive.org version of this press release has a semi-colon after AT&T; i can't remember if in 1995 we would write the code to be AT&
by edub 6y ago
it is interesting that the archive.org version of this press release has a semi-colon after AT&T;
i can't remember if in 1995 we would write the code to be AT&T or if that came a bit later.
perhaps the scraper thought it was an HTML entity starting with the & followed by the T and it added the semi-colon.
or maybe it originally was posted in 1995 without the semi-colon and before it got indexed in 2002 by archive.org someone ran a regex style replacement on old static html files at netscape to "fix" html entities.
it just doesn't seem likely that a static html file from 1995 would have had AT&T; in it, it seems more likely that it was transformed either by the scraper or some internal script run after it was originally posted.
i found an old email version of the press release on Lunds University website that does not have the semi-colon. http://www2.ldc.lu.se/temadag95/javascript.txt http://www2.ldc.lu.se/temadag95/javascript.txt
and what looks like an archive of the 1995 version of the java website hosted at University of Oviedo:
http://www6.uniovi.es/java-http/pr951204-03.html http://www6.uniovi.es/java-http/pr951204-03.html
- hcs 6y agoIn the raw version of the archived page, found by adding "id_" after the URL[1], there is no semicolon. The link to netscape.com at the end is mysteriously missing still, "Additional information on Netscape Communications Corporation is available on the Internet at ," [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20020606002913id_/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html https://web.archive.org/web/20020606002913id_/http://wp.nets...
- ignoranceprior 6y agoDoes this mean the Wayback Machine has a bug relating to how it handles HTML entities?
- edub 6y agowelp, I did not know that you could get the raw version. Thanks for the tip! It sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25312677