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Four-Oh-Found!

Working Title: Four-Oh-Found!
Status: Pending
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Owner: Casey Greene
Contributors: ...

Plugin (?) for connecting 404 pages to Wayback Machine

Short Description:
Some sort of plugin or app of sorts that, when your browser Of Choice encounters
a “404 Not Found” page, it automatically checks the WayBack Machine on
archive.org for a cached, archived copy, for Your Convenience.

Full Description:
Wouldn’t it be nice if the url below had popped up when I looked for “the Hacker
FAQ” on ESR’s “How to Become a Hacker” page at the top of the link section?

I think so.

URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20070409014719/http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/faqs/hacker.html

Recent Feedback

Mike Lundy said,
Epiphany (<3 epiphany!) gives you archive and google cache links for domains
that don’t respond. It shouldn’t be too hard to get it to do that for 404 links.

11 months ago

Adrian Perez said,
I like this idea a lot, it might try using the Google cache first, because
archive.org can be really slow sometimes.

And perhaps it can have a pop-up asking you if you’d like to go to
archive.org/google cache, as sometimes you might have clicked on something
accidentally and don’t actually want to be redirected.

11 months ago

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