Wayback machine disappointment

[Chuck Guzis]

On 24 Jan 2007 at 23:50, Adrian Graham wrote:

> Whilst shrinking in embarrassment at my own website efforts going back to
> the mid 90s I thought I'd look at www.digital.com for a bit of nostalgia,
> only to be told that the site is blocked and isn't available.
> 
> Anyone know why?

Ostensibly because HP doesn't want to you see old copies of DEC's 
site.  From the FAQ:

"Sometimes a web site owner will contact us directly and ask us to 
stop crawling or archiving a site, and we endevor to comply with 
these requests.  When you come accross a "blocked site error" 
message, that means that a siteowner has made such a request and it 
has been honored."

I'd ask HP public relations about the reason for it.  (Spelling 
errors notwithstanding)

Cheers,
Chuck