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There's things I've tried to document on this blog that no longer have citations because there's a dead link.
Occasionally, I can find a new link, but not very often any more.
It's sad because I had a link to the history of the Orlite magazine showing that they were first issued to the IDF in 1982 and the metal mesh reinforcement for the feed lips starts in 1992.
The 1983 patent shows a screen like reinforcement at the lips, so...
The example I own has a mesh in the lip area, so...
But the link I had is dead. I never posted it to the blog, just saved a bookmark, and it's gone.
There's information that I think should be saved that is going away because the authors don't maintain their sites or the domains don't. Amounts to the same thing.
I think I am going to have to start committing copyright violations and copy-paste entire passages to make sure they last as long as Google keeps Blogger going.
In the long run, it doesn't matter if we know what year the Orlite becomes readily available, but if you run a Twilight: 2000 RDF sourcebook campaign, it might just matter.
YMMV, but I tend to print out articles and such that are interest to me. I have several binders full of such things; enough that space is becoming a wee bit of a problem, as my Lego collection increases.
ReplyDeleteI also have paper bags of newspaper articles, some dating back to the 1960s. Remember columnists Max Rafferty and Mike Royko, as well as Evans and Novak?
This way, I'm not trying to find or replace dead links.
I'd rapidly run out of space for printed citations.
DeleteI remember, though, routinely printing out web pages when working on the car. I found a file folder full of them for a car that's long gone. They've been circular filed now.
You could save as PDF and file them. Also if the site is archived by the wayback machine you could use that instead of a live site link
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