JPFeb 21, 2023
just stumbled across an old "link shortening service" link that just 404s ( http://tr.im ) and lol, those shitty things are going to obliterate so much internet history in due time aren't they
Show threadJPFeb 21, 2023
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.
Show threadBasilFeb 22, 2023
@jplebreton except, of course, the page selling the domain for $200,000. 🙄
Show threadmhoye

@basil @jplebreton The ones that could simply be seized by governments are the my personal favorites.

Every dot-L-Y redirect is the Libyan government's for the asking.

There's no way this has any grounding in fact, but one of my personal favourite conspiracy theories is that the Arab Spring was engineered to destabilize the Libyan state enough to prevent them from realizing they could interdict enough of the web to catastrophically undermine western economies.

Feb 22, 2023 at 2:47pmWeb