1/ To celebrate #InternetArchive25, I wrote about using the @waybackmachine to look back over 20 years of LSU women's basketball's main webpage @LSUwbkb @WebSciDL
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2/ I started with reliving my experience at a classic LSU vs. Tennessee game from 1999 (that LSU won, of course).
3/ First, I found that the URI of the current webpage, lsusports.net/sports/wbball/, is fairly new, so I needed to do more investigation to find URIs that had previously been used. web.archive.org/web/*/https://… 
4/ Overall, I found 5 different patterns of URI-Rs (original URIs) for the LSU women's basketball main webpage. gist.github.com/weiglemc/16db7…
5/ To my dismay, I discovered that there are no usable archived pages, or mementos, for the LSU women's basketball webpage during Dec 2004-Dec 2008, the greatest period in @LSUwbkb history, featuring LSU legends @seimoneaugustus and @SylviaFowles.
6/ During that time, lsusports.net had a robots.txt file in place that prevented the Internet Archive from archiving the site. web.archive.org/web/2007*/http…
7/ I had fun investigating and pulling all of this together, though I was very disappointed by the archival hole caused by robots.txt. I'm glad the Internet Archive decided to start ignoring robots.txt in 2017.
Happy 25th Anniversary, @internetarchive! #InternetArchive25
Happy 25th Anniversary, @internetarchive! #InternetArchive25
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