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all those links now give you the bartleby front page; i.e., nada. Ok, something's weird here: I typed a word into the Search box (in my link), and among other things it gave me the beginning of the AHD listing; but when I clicked on it for the full def. it sent me to the nada page.
Thanks for your link, though; I've added it to my Favorites.
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>wrong
>the link takes me to bartleby but what is the wayback machine?
you didn't notice the url, now did you? if you do take note of it you'll see that the bartleby address is preceded by that of the wayback machine [web.archive.org]. this is because the page you're seeing is actually an archive of the bartleby page captured by the w.m. back in March(?). the way I got it was by plugging the url from Jackie's page into the wayback machine (see olly's link), which gave me all kinds of archived results. I just clicked on the latest one, which is what you saw.
actually, it works much like Google (as to the archiving), but the w.m. saves multiple snapshots of each web page, allowing you to select to a specific timeframe. also, unlike Google, you get a clean look -- no ads or other extra stuff -- which makes it look just like the original!
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I found some old webstuff of ours that I thought had gone forever. That's cool, isn't it, olly? Bringing back memories, and all. 
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Languagehat was bewailing this and blogged about it. He got some interesting comments. I haven't had a chance to check them out. See them here. Edit: OK, so I didn't go to tsuwm's link. Mine's directly to the specific post so it'll work foralmostever
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>it'll work foralmostever y'all should capture this url in your notebook; then in ten or 15 years you can plug it into the wayback machine and dredge up this thread! - joe (set the WABAC machine to 2009, Sherman) friday
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But, but---it couldn't find two old threads from right here that I plugged into it; possibly because they were from before the format changed the first time?
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give me a quote and an address..
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secret thread link I can't give you a quote, because I can't get to the thread! But it's to that weird thread that wandered off into the ether on its own, separated from the rest of the board, and a few of us posted there just for the heck of it. Edit: Er--p'raps I'd better give you the actual address! http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=27091 Edit 2: I saved the link "way back" in '01.
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