The Wayback Machine And Your Favourite Blog

Did you know that the Internet Archive has an ever growing archive of all of the open web? Every single page, where it's been allowed and has come to their attention, is being archived so that if the original disappears for whatever reason, you can still find a snapshot of it. To access this archive you use the Wayback Machine.

This blog is safely stored deep within AND not just a one-off snapshot but many versions over the years.

The blog's homepage has been saved 208 times between September 10, 2008 and October 6, 2024 (at time of writing this). Each post will have it's own stats, mostly one or two saves.

The Internet Archive has saved my arse a number of times, but most recently it's been a source of images, but first, let me tell you a story. Back in the day this blog's web address was merely miramarmike.blogger.com ... in fact underlying it all, it still is. This was then mapped to blog.mikeriversdale.co.nz. HOWEVER, during a move down to Christchurch I had a brain fart and started a brand new blog called ChCh-Changes, a whole new one, and downloaded / uploaded all the posts and then deleted the original blog. What a wally! After a while I then returned to Miramar and MiramaMike became a much more permanent fixture. Time for another brainfart - I downloaded and uploaded the posts from ChCh-Changes into a brand new MiramarMike blog and deleted that blog, only for some toerag to jump on the old address and keep it even though it was empty of old posts ... again what a wally I was to let it go, never again.

And so, whilst this blog has been going since December 2004 the Internet Archive only has it saved since 2008 when all my blog address shenanigans finally stopped.

No-one has any idea what the blog looked like between 2005 and 2008, my recollection is of a basic looking site, but who really knows

I've uploaded full page screenshots of archived pages as they change in theme - the following are the top sections only:

September 2008 

November 2008

May 2010

June 2010

February 2011

April 2011

October 2011

November 2011

May 2013

January 2014

May 2014

Here's an archival nightmare choice I made, my use of the dynamic Blogger themes ... yup, poor old Wayback Machine just can't render it, how annoying eh.

2018

So that's two years of unknown look-and-feel but I finally went back to more static and archival friendly modes ...

May 2020

June 2020

August 2020

October 2020

April 2021

July 2022

October 2022

December 2022

November 2024

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