The problematics of Internet Research...
Bummer! The people behind the A.I. film's supplementary web mystery have "killed" all the sites related to the mystery. I wanted to tell about this project in class and show some screenshots, but suddenly found only 404s (site not found). Tried Google's cached pages instead, but a) since images on pages apparently came from somewhere else, they werent cached and there were a lot of empty icons on the pages, and b) the Google "this is a cached page" notice fills like 1/3 of the screen which is pretty annoying especially if you want to show them as screenshots in a presentation. But!! Help is to be found - I discovered that the The Internet Archive appears to have stored a lot of these websites while they were up and running - with all images too. By way of an article on A.I. and viral marketing, I found a lot of links to those missing from A.I and with a copy of those URLs pasted into archive.org and the results, I am now able to do a presentation after all. Thumbs up for the Internet Archive - and another experience which has convinced me that the only way to make 100& sure that my research sites remain available is to store them myself on my computer :(. Such a precious waste of space - but what else to do?
# posted by Lisbeth at: 15:15