Post by Hexit on Mar 7, 2014 16:37:23 GMT
Edit: Aaannd I just realized Baboozle had already made a post on guild thread recovery through the Wayback Machine, so it wasn't really a discovery here 
Ladies and Gentlemen, I will reveal to you a miracle, something that has the ability to take you back in time on the internet...a little web archival site named The Wayback Machine! This handy site takes snapshots of sites from certain dates in time and keeps those pages in its vast library. According to the site, over 397 billion pages have been archived! Depending on the page, dates may range from the 90's up to now. You may be able to guess where this is going. The FO forums have been archived in the database. The main FO site has been archived in the DB. Even the wiki and Ps3k sprite page (though none of the sprites or items load up from what I can tell).
I have just found it so I'm not sure exactly what it can recover, but I have noticed that multiple threads and 2nd, 3rd, 4th pages of threads have been rendered useless because they don't show up when clicked on. Some of the main threads, like the first page of the screenshot thread have been saved. Unfortunately, after Gamer required login to access the forums the forum posts are inaccessible due to the inability to login. And login is unsupported on any of the archived sites (it makes sense though).
Really, it's a way of reliving some of our experiences with FO. Even though the archived version of the game can't be played, the main page and forums contains screenshots and are great nostalgic pieces of the past.
Main site through Wayback
Forums through Wayback
Feel free to fill up the old FO screenshots thread with the images you find!
Also, here are some links to some FO-related things:
Character Preview Gen. --No character loads, I wonder if this could be fixed...
Player Made DB--Some old maps/sprites/items
I think you guys can figure out the Wayback machine for yourselves, but if you have questions you can post them here.
I have just found it so I'm not sure exactly what it can recover, but I have noticed that multiple threads and 2nd, 3rd, 4th pages of threads have been rendered useless because they don't show up when clicked on. Some of the main threads, like the first page of the screenshot thread have been saved. Unfortunately, after Gamer required login to access the forums the forum posts are inaccessible due to the inability to login. And login is unsupported on any of the archived sites (it makes sense though).
Really, it's a way of reliving some of our experiences with FO. Even though the archived version of the game can't be played, the main page and forums contains screenshots and are great nostalgic pieces of the past.
Main site through Wayback
Forums through Wayback
Feel free to fill up the old FO screenshots thread with the images you find!
Also, here are some links to some FO-related things:
Character Preview Gen. --No character loads, I wonder if this could be fixed...
Player Made DB--Some old maps/sprites/items
I think you guys can figure out the Wayback machine for yourselves, but if you have questions you can post them here.
