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
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
"Wayback Machine has not archived that URL."
Nothing beside remains.
@jplebreton In my experience the Wayback Machine has good coverage of link shorteners but yeah it's a long-time known issue. They spun off a non-profit foundation to try to get link shorteners to share their databases in escrow so they don't have to rely on scraping for coverage, but a bunch of the major companies don't share theirs.
@pervognsen @jplebreton what is that non-profit called?
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

@avirr @pervognsen @jplebreton

I know them. I mean this spin-off foundation.