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revolver94 professional dilettante Profile
Location Washington, D.C. United States
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  • Posted: 03/05/2013 22:03
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How many of you have heard of the "wayback machine"? You've probably used it once or twice without knowing. Essentially, it archives internet pages as they existed at a past time. It's both practical and lots of fun!

To see a website as it existed, you simply enter the URL at this website: http://archive.org/web/web.php

It's fun to look at both the site at large and individual charts. For example, here's my chart as it existed on September 9, 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110909025447/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=308 9

Wow! Only 30 albums!

If you enter in your own chart and it says that there isn't an archive for it, don't fret! When I first tried mine, it said there wasn't one either, but then I checked back later and it had updated.

Some other users:

Hayden: http://web.archive.org/web/20110908190938/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=335 0

tekin: http://web.archive.org/web/20120814155945/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=460 1

Squishypuffdave: http://web.archive.org/web/20100602115147/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=186 6

Le_samurai: http://web.archive.org/web/20110909081111/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=322 3

ffudnebbuh: http://web.archive.org/web/20100102075108/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=141 8

Freddie55: http://web.archive.org/web/20110909042328/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=145 5

Norman Bates: http://web.archive.org/web/20111224191513/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=122 5

Mr. Shankly: http://web.archive.org/web/20100102075138/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=211

PunctureRepair: http://web.archive.org/web/20120927000128/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=228 7

GARY: http://web.archive.org/web/20110905025249/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=259 6

RFNaples: http://web.archive.org/web/20100604052502/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=103 5

Robert Anton Wilson: http://web.archive.org/web/20111225235558/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=316 5

Harkan: http://web.archive.org/web/20110116183828/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=207 1

albummaster: http://web.archive.org/web/20101127144306/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=248 0

lethalnezzle: http://web.archive.org/web/20110904161347/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=245 4

cartoken: http://web.archive.org/web/20100102075112/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=148 4

applerill: http://web.archive.org/web/20110830103427/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=304 9

xavygravy: http://web.archive.org/web/20111222015110/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=361 5

jackwc: http://web.archive.org/web/20110527074550/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=282 6

wow i did way too many of those.
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Norman Bates Profile
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  • #2
  • Posted: 03/05/2013 22:05
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Link to my archive doesn't show my chart.
EDIT : actually, they're all wrong.
revolver94 professional dilettante Profile
Location Washington, D.C. United States
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  • Posted: 03/05/2013 22:05
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ok, for some reason all of the last numbers got cut off... but if you see the extra number next to your URL, just add it... for some reason i can't fix it.
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revolver94 professional dilettante Profile
Location Washington, D.C. United States
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  • Posted: 03/05/2013 22:06
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http://web.archive.org/web/20111224191513/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=1225

try this?
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revolver94 professional dilettante Profile
Location Washington, D.C. United States
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  • Posted: 03/05/2013 22:08
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I think there's a feature on the site that is supposed to prevent link spamming (that is a lot of links 😜 )

copy the link to your URL bar and then add the extra number that is visible next to the link.

For example, puncture, instead of entering

http://web.archive.org/web/20120927000128/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=228 7

you want

http://web.archive.org/web/20120927000128/http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=2287

EDIT: if any of you can get it to work, i'd love to know... i spent too long getting all of those links together 😜
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Spotify link

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  • Posted: 03/05/2013 23:51
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Didn't work for me. It had a copy of my chart archived from Feb. 21 with Ride the Lightning in the top 20, though I distinctly remember moving RtL into my top 20 for the first time on Mar. 1.

\_O_o_/
Jasonconfused If We Make It We Can All Sit Back and Laugh Profile
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  • Posted: 03/06/2013 00:32
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swedenman wrote:
Didn't work for me. It had a copy of my chart archived from Feb. 21 with Ride the Lightning in the top 20, though I distinctly remember moving RtL into my top 20 for the first time on Mar. 1.

\_O_o_/


I can't imagine Ride the Lightning disappearing from my top 20 😜 I'd have to listen to A LOT more albums in order to find enough gems to displace it.
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  • Posted: 03/06/2013 09:22
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Not working for mine.
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  • Posted: 03/06/2013 12:30
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Those links don't work but it's easy to see a cached version of your chart. Just enter your chart's link here.
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  • Posted: 03/06/2013 17:13
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Jasonconfused wrote:
I can't imagine Ride the Lightning disappearing from my top 20 😜 I'd have to listen to A LOT more albums in order to find enough gems to displace it.


No joke. It's pretty much a masterpiece. For some reason I haven't really listened to Metallica that much until just recently, though. I've had all the RtL through AJFA albums for ages but never really listened to them quite as much as I should have been.
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