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Published 2026-08-06 · Status of facts checked 2026-08-06
13 articles, first published 2026-08-06. Use the browser’s find function; that is what this page is for.
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Fifty bookmarking services, one search box: what became of the sites this address indexed in 2007
In February 2007 this address published a custom search engine covering fifty social bookmarking services; nineteen years later eight of those names still offer somewhere to save a link, one survives read-only, and the largest single category is not shut down but nobody can now establish what happened.
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Every tool in this space claims full-text search, and the phrase covers at least four different products — the URL and title, the fetched readable text, the stored snapshot, and an embedding index — which behave completely differently the moment the source page goes offline.
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The browser as the place you saved things: what a 2008 extension roundup was really describing
A 2008 list of more than fifty Firefox add-ons for sharing and bookmarking is now a record of an assumption that did not survive: that the browser would be the neutral ground where every service met.
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The bookmark with nothing behind it: what a link record is worth when its target is gone
This address held one saved link, catalogued into a Diigo group and cited from there. The record survives in someone else’s index; the page it pointed at does not, and cannot be recovered from what the record kept.
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The accounts are closed: what happened to this community, and what a shutdown notice should tell you
This path served a registration form until about 2010; no accounts exist, no data is held, nothing will be restored, and the windows other services gave their users when they closed are the most useful thing this page can now show.
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Disc images as an archiving format, 2009
The page at this address in 2009 was promotional copy for a disc-copying product. What is worth recording instead is the archival idea underneath it: why people made disc images at all, and what replaced the practice.
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I/O device error 0x8007045D, as asked in 2007
A Windows Vista help thread from February 2007, preserved as a period document: what the error meant on the hardware of the time, what the thread concluded, and why none of it is current advice.
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Sidebar gadgets and the galleries that held them, 2007
A February 2007 note about two new WinCustomize galleries is now a record of a whole distribution model for small desktop software — and of what happened to the things people uploaded to it.
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del.icio.us: what is actually left, and what can still be got out
The service that defined social bookmarking passed through five owners in fourteen years and was never deleted. This is its observable state today, checked rather than remembered.
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Ma.gnolia, 30 January 2009: the Copy That Was Not a Backup
Ma.gnolia lost every member’s collection in a single morning because the thing it called a backup was a file sync with no versioning, no integrity checking and no restore ever performed.
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Pocket is gone and you have the CSV: what survives an import, field by field
Migration guides say the export is straightforward. The question that actually costs people their library is narrower: which fields the export contains at all, and which of those any given importer reads.
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One Hundred Thousand: the Bookmark Sync Ceiling, and the Years It Went Undocumented
Chrome stops syncing bookmarks at one hundred thousand nodes — a number enforced by default since March 2023, declared in Chromium’s source, absent from Google’s support article as late as a capture of 2025-12-26, and attached to an error state that in one case clears on a thirty-day timer rather than on anything a reader does.
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Auditing a link collection for rot: what to check, in what order
Checking whether saved links still work is not one job but four, and the standard advice — use the Wayback Machine — answers only the third of them.
Instruments
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A dated custody record of the services people saved links into: the 50-name roster captured at this address in 2007, and what is still operating in 2026.
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Claims that circulate widely about this subject and that this publication could not verify, published deliberately.
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Every re-stamp of a Ledger row, with the source that caused it. Has its own feed.
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The arc of saving links in public, every entry sourced and confidence-graded.
Sections
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Keeping a link collection alive: exports, sync limits, dead-link audits, and what a shutdown notice should tell you.
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Period documents about what stood at three of this domain’s addresses in 2007–2009. Not current advice.
Apparatus
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Who publishes this, what it refuses to publish, and why it is at an address named infopirate.org.
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The source ladder, the status vocabulary, the re-check cadence, and why some old addresses return 404.
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How the site is built, and its known weaknesses.
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Every correction, dated.
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How to reach the publication, and why no address is live yet.