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If you're anything like me, you've perused Tom's Hardware's old CPU and VGA charts more times than you can remember. Tom's has been around forever, and their earlier articles were top notch. These reviews and benchmarks represent an invaluable and irreplaceable resource for us vintage hardware buffs.
Imagine my dismay, then, when I discovered that many older Tom's Hardware articles have become broken or completely inaccessible. For example, VGA Charts IV is still online, but none of the images show. Same with the epic Mother of All CPU Charts and its sequel. The interactive VGA Charts 2005 still shows up in search results, but the link appears to be dead. To make matters far, far worse, Tom's Hardware is excluded from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
I first noticed these problems a few months ago, and I initially hoped it was a temporary glitch and the content would come back. No such luck. I've started archiving what I can: the images for the older VGA and CPU charts can still be retrieved by digging through the pages' source and tweaking the URLs, but I'm at a loss when it comes to the newer interactive charts. I would post the archived content here, but I imagine that would land VOGONS in hot water, so... PM me, I guess?
Anyway, two questions:
1) Does anyone know if this content is already available in archived form somewhere on the internet?
2) Does anyone with more web savvy know how I might go about retrieving the lost interactive charts?
