> 0 comments This is a blatant lie, I know posts on Old New Thing with zero comments have been extremely rare. And of course: https://web.archive.org/web/2009

> 0 comments This is a blatant lie, I know posts on Old New Thing with zero comments have been extremely rare. And of course: https://web.archive.org/web/20091231092140/http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/08/54618.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20091231092140/http://blogs.msdn... Note that pingbacks were also available, and some posts had quite a lot of them from various years, creating a web of somehow related pieces of information. After 2012 the comments were loaded with AJAX, its endpoint obviously stopped existing, and it wouldn't work on Web Archive anyway. However, these resurfaced in 2016 after another move. And someone on bytepointer.com has created a sane static copy which deserves an applause. Also, various old custom text style markup was broken in other posts, but it's a general problem with all MSDN content. People doing the conversion just didn't care. I guess informing them that some old knowledge base articles were actually distributed as self-extracting archives (IIRC, in custom format, so you have to run them in an emulator to unpack) with text and code files (in DOS code page, with occasional pseudographics) would make them panic and run away. So there's a corporation the size of Microsoft, and one of the most highly regarded places to set “correct” approach to Windows programming, and the most they can offer to Raymond Chen is “Hey, old man, our engine supports bold and italic, and comments from Microsoft® Account™ logins, you can import your posts and fix them manually. Next!” The announce post had an excuse (personal data protection laws) https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-01/?p=102234 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190313-01/?p=10... HOWEVER, it does not cover pingbacks (at least pingbacks from oldnewthing to oldnewthing itself). Also, even in 2003 we see the remains of “old” old comment system, so at least some comments had been impossible to delete all along even before the move. Tsk. /grumble