From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sethm@loomcom.com (Seth Morabito) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:25:59 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] DMR's page offline... In-Reply-To: <46b366130905251933x1405f73rc56d6ab2b8b116e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130905251933x1405f73rc56d6ab2b8b116e9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Jason Stevens wrote: > I don't know if it's worth mentioning... > > but it looks like Dennis Ritchie's page is down.... > > http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ > > At least there is the wayback machine > http://web.archive.org/web/20070930200555/http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ Sadly, the Wayback Machine is now not serving up the page either: "We're sorry, access to http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt." Indeed, the host's robots.txt file has this entry in it toward the bottom: User-agent: * Disallow: / so I assume that the site has been re-scraped since coming back up, and is now no longer made available by the Internet Archive, according to their stated policy on robots.txt exclusions. Just an oversight, I'm sure, but it shows off the fragility of information on the web. You cannot trust the Internet Archive to make information publicly available forever. -Seth