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Re:The Return of the 90s Web by dredmorbius on Friday June 19, 2020 @10:46AM (#23575032)
If you have an indicator of content on a specific date and can confirm no signoficant change ...

Though document fingerprinting is hard. Especially w/ fungible page elements.

Internet Archive has an angle here.

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Re:The Return of the 90s Web by aspenmayer on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:19PM (#23595499)
> Internet Archive has an angle here.

Are you referring to WARC type tooling or what? I don’t want to put words in your mouth. I’m a complete learner on this topic. I think gwern has written a bit about this broadly? I’m curious to know more about this, if you have time to share more.

https://www.gwern.net/Search

https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive

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