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  1. Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

    Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?

    The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives webpages (that allow it) and quite often you can lookup broken links in the archive.

    I often do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/web/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to lookup, because I know some of the Internet Archive’s URL patterns.

    Though it’s not really a “search engine”, I realized I could use the search engine shortcuts feature of Firefox to simplify this greatly.

    Here’s how to create a search shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:

    1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
    2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
    3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
    4. enter "Internet Archive" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
    5. enter "https://web.archive.org/web/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
    6. enter "ia" into the Keyword field (without quotes)

    Now if a link I follow fails to load (404) or is otherwise broken, I can:

    1. copy that link (I may have to go back to the previous page and right-click choose "Copy Link")
    2. activate the browser address bar (cmd-L does this in Firefox and Safari)
    3. type "ia " (without the quotes)
    4. paste the link I had copied earlier, and press return

    Presto, an Internet Archive result for that link.

    If you’re a frequent user of the Wayback Machine, hopefully this will save you some time.

    And if not, try it anyway for the next time you click on a link and it seems broken.

    This is my fifth #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and third useful web tip for September.

    #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #search #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #searchEngine #archive #archives #PageNotFound #404 #404Error #Error404 #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #searchTip

  2. Google gets slapped with a billion-dollar fine by the EU for playing favorites with its own services. 🤦‍♂️ Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal's website is lost in a Bermuda Triangle of "Page Not Found" errors. 💸🔍 How's that for digital karma?
    wsj.com/tech/google-fined-1-02 #GoogleFine #EURegulations #DigitalKarma #PageNotFound #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

  3. The WSJ has created an article on AI job creation that is as elusive as a unicorn in the wild, but don't worry, "Page Not Found" is the real headline here! 😂 Apparently, AI is so advanced that it's already deleting its own records. 🤖💼
    wsj.com/tech/ai/wanted-head-of #AIJobCreation #Unicorns #PageNotFound #TechHumor #FutureOfWork #HackerNews #ngated

  4. ✨ Breaking News: #Urea spontaneously forms when a prestigious university's website has a nervous breakdown and forgets how to website. 🖥️🔍 ETH Zürich: Offering top-notch education in error messages and page-not-found studies since 2020! 🎓🚫
    ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth #BreakingNews #ETHZürich #ErrorMessages #PageNotFound #HackerNews #ngated

  5. Upadající montovna, nebo nenápadný zelený tygr? Česko se probouzí do světa nové industriální politiky – Page Not Found - pagenotfound.cz/clanek/upadaji

  6. @jakubzelenka Když budeš poctivě heštegovat #PageNotFound tak asi je zbytečné zakládat účet. Zatím. ;)

  7. Na #PageNotFound je super, že i když nemám čas si něco přečíst hned, můžu si to v klidu přečíst za měsíc a pořád je to relevantní.

    Toto je přesně věc, která mi vadila třeba u Respektu. Koupil jsem si časopis plný zajímavých věcí, ale než jsem stihl přečíst tři články, většina obsahu už byla pasé.

    Chci věnovat čas tématům, které mají váhu třeba i za půl roku. To podstatné se odehrává na pozadí každodenních událostí.

    Díky @jakubzelenka 👍

  8. The Financial Times redirects /foo to /bar and serves up a winning 404 page. #404 #PageNotFound #FT
    ft.com/foo

  9. Firmu SpyHide zničila až mladá hacktivistka ze Švýcarska maia arson crimew (nejde o tiskovou chybu, tak si skutečně říká), která spustila tažení proti sledovacímu softwaru s výmluvným hashtagem #FuckStalkerware. Hacknutím SpyHide se zmocnila 230 GB dat, která obsahovala nezašifrovanou komunikaci.

    Z dat analyzovaných Page 404 vyšlo najevo, že v síti uvízly také stovky Čechů. Zdrojové kódy navíc prozradily, že za službou stojí Íránci.

    @jakubzelenka a #pagenotfound
    pagenotfound.cz/clanek/cesti-s

  10. Start a publishing company. Publish only books with at least 450 pages. Remove page 404 every time before you approve the print release. Welcome to the #PageNotFound publishing company :)

  11. Einen Verlag gründen, nur Bücher publizieren mit mindestens 450 Seiten und konsequent immer ohne Seite 404 zum Druck freigeben. #PageNotFound Verlag.