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First post, by schlomoe99

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Lots of old hardware spec pages from CNET now are showing “404 not found” errors when I search for old hardware on Bing or Google. Anyone else noticing this?

Reply 3 of 7, by BitWrangler

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Damn, where will I get my 80% accurate tech specs from now?

Heh okay they maybe weren't that bad, but there were a few noticeable errors. Odd though, I swear I hit a few CNet pages over the weekend and they were fine then.

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Reply 4 of 7, by TehGuy

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Honestly I think sites need to start rolling things through wayback machine before nuking pages if it's stuff like this. Definitely made it hard for me over the weekend when I needed to find a quick-n-dirty spec for monitors

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Reply 5 of 7, by W.x.

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Did anyone at least try ask them to keep it, or send it to some retro site, that could have interest of keeping that database?
Anyway, what's the problem to let it there in year 2010+ , most of pages are text only with some small picture... like it cannot take up so much space.

Reply 7 of 7, by Horun

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W.x. wrote on 2023-01-10, 20:36:

Intel now did it with all specs of older motherboards. They've removed all older board specs from the page. Even LGA775 boards are removed now.

We knew that was happening back in 2019,
There is a good topic here about it: Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website
here is a link that can still get you most of soc775 stuff like last bios, etc but not the big sized drivers:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200105204147/ht … -Desktop-Boards
Many of us already archived all the older stuff before it got wiped, I upped what I could at the time back early 2020 to archive org:
https://archive.org/details/@horun?query=intel
and others too but you have to search for them.....

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun