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kquiggle

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In case you didn't know:

Ever find an interesting link here or elsewhere, only to find when you click on it that the page/site no longer exists? Don't give up hope, there are a number of ways to view web pages that have gone missing:

1. Google cache

Google stores cache copies of many web pages, You can access these pages by prefacing the link with
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:

for example, to view the cache copy of

http://example.com/

use

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://example.com/
2. Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

The Wayback Machine store multiple snapshots of web pages from 1996 to a few month ago.

A quick and easy way to use these capabilities is to install the CacheIt! extension for the Firefox web browser (there may be similar extensions for other browsers, but I have not researched this).


There are other options available, but I have found the two above most useful.
 
Very handy. Now if you can only get deleted photo's back ... :( :D
 

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