Wetlook World Forum

I've found that the Wayback Machine sadly reminds us just how much stuff has really been deleted and seems destined never to be seen again.

While many sites are archived there, the snapshots are infrequent and often skip months or years worth of updates, and rarely have full-size pictures been archived, just the pages/text around them. And videos are never archived. Plus there are many sites that have not been archived, and other sites just lost to memory since you can't look them up on Wayback if you don't know their URL from when they were live.

Not to mention all of the candid stuff on old photo-sharing sites, youtube, etc., that's long been deleted by their owners and is not recoverable.

So for me, the takeaway has been save something you like the moment you see it, for it may be gone tomorrow, and gone for good.