All the images still exist on the internet archive, just not in a format that can be explored. What's been lost is the efforts of all the users to separate the

All the images still exist on the internet archive, just not in a format that can be explored. What's been lost is the efforts of all the users to separate the interesting images from the chaff.. and organise them into collections. For such a large corpus that's a really valuable thing. Also links people had to those images are just dead. And all the images users had previously favourited have just disappeared from their collections.