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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by jrochkind1 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:11AM (#30085568)
I don't think you can tell if "the text" of the page has changed since then without manually looking though. I'm not sure how you'd solve this technically, it's probably more than just telling you if the html bytes are identical, since small changes probably happen all the time to "the same article".

Or it might be good enough, because this kind of content is rarely updated at the same url?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by mark-r on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:32PM (#30089668)
I wish Wayback had an indicator for how much the page has changed from one capture to the next. A simple count of the diffs should give you a good idea.
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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by thatwasunusual on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:44AM (#30085996)
That is irrelevant, at least for me. :)
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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by jrochkind1 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:07AM (#30086360)
Why are you interested in when the URL was first there, but not if it has entirely different content than when it was first there?
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Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? by thatwasunusual on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:06AM (#30100710)
Because I'm only interested in when Wayback first saw the page. Nothing magical. :)
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