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[some_stars]

The really cruel thing about the Wayback Machine is that it will remember the front page of a fic archive, and the pages where all the fic is listed, but then fail to archive 90% of the actual fic. That is MEAN and I disapprove and also don't understand how it could happen. Also all this fic I'm trying to find from when I was fourteen is stuff I'm pretty sure no one I know now would have had anything to do with (and I am slightly embarrassed for wanting it), so even asking the internet probably won't help. --also, I really think it says something that the stuff I'm NOT embarrassed about was all perfectly preserved. Even the Wayback Machine is shaming me now.

That said, if anyone was in the habit of saving Homicide fic written from about 1997-2001, you might be my new favorite person. :D? :D?

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[ratcreature]

I disapprove and also don't understand how it could happen

I disapprove too. When that happens to me I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy yanks the football. As to how it happens, if it is regular html pages rather than dynamically created pages (from an database) it's probably an "index, no-follow" directive in the robots instructions on the front pages, because people wanted their archive to be found in search engines, but didn't feel comfortable with having the fanfic itself cached.

[some_stars]

Well, the peculiar thing is that some of the stories are available and others aren't. So they'd have to be adding the no robots notice to individual pages, and not all of them. This is what I find so perplexing. Well, that and the question of why I'm craving this old fic so bad even though what little I've been able to find was pretty terrible. I can't help it though, I imprinted at a young and tender age /o\ It doesn't help that I'm vaguely embarrassed to ask for it bc I landed on the wrong side of a fandom war back then, being young and clueless. I just want to relive 8th grade, is that so much to ask, internet?