Archive Web Pages You Care About

While cleaning up my resumé for my current job search, I noticed one single link was no longer working. The offender was a blog I wrote almost 400 posts for, a few years back. This blog, Pplware Kids, was a branch of Pplware, a Portuguese tech blog. There, I wrote many explainer posts, tutorials, and tech news. Now, it is gone. If you try accessing the blog, it just redirects to the main blog. Since they were redirecting the URL paths, I thought they had imported the blog posts into the main website. It’d make sense: this branch blog hadn’t been maintained for a few years, and there was no real reason importing them and keeping the redirect wouldn’t work out. But no. Accessing an old post’s link redirects and gives me a beautiful 404. This made me a bit sad, not because the posts were that interesting, or an extreme source of pride, but it’s still something I did, something I did not archive and have no copy of. Fortunately, crawling the Web Archive has allowed me to find most of the…

Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town