Ghosts of the web

What do you do when a page you want to read isn't there any more, and Google's cache is no help?

That's when you need the Internet Archive.

Highlight and copy the URL you've got, paste it into the Wayback Machine, and in my experience there's a one-in-three chance that the page you desire will miraculously pop up on screen - sometimes in dozens of successive versions. Admittedly the images may be missing and the links may be kaput, but come on chaps, imperfect world, sic transit, vale of tears, &c., &c.

This has been a public service announcement.