We're Back on the Wayback Machine
We’re pleased to announce that after seven months, the Archive of Our Own is once again available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine!
Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. We reached out to its maintainers several times during this period, to find out why AO3 pages weren’t archived anymore. The project’s director contacted us this week and explained the problem.
Rather than excluding only pages belonging to users who had asked for their content to be taken down (e.g. their profile page or specific works), the entire archiveofourown.org domain had been mistakenly excluded. The folks at the Wayback Machine have corrected this problem and the AO3 is available there once more. (Check out the Archive homepage from 2010!)
While the Wayback Machine is a great service, and another useful tool in the efforts to preserve fanworks and fan history, this is a good reminder not to keep all your eggs in the same basket. Download works you might want to read again in a year, crosspost your own works to other sites, and be sure you save back-ups locally and/or with a trusted online service.
If you’re concerned about the public availability of your works, check our “How can I hide my works from non-Archive users?” FAQ for information that can help protect your privacy.
[crossposted from our post at the AO3 News]
GUYS! They are all back! I am in raptures! Here are a few of the deleted fics I’ve found on the Wayback machine previously, all links are once again live. As always, download and save copies for your personal use because you never know when stuff will disappear!
Madness of Angels by ayalesca
Sick Fic by Little Pippin
The Getting Better Series by LittlePippin (link goes to another post with all parts listed separately)
Growing Up Holmes by Alioseven (ditto)
Voulez Vous and L’ultima Vertigine chapters 1-3 and chapter 4 by Melandria/Alba Nix
A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left by similarfrowns
Home Is When I’m Alone With You by cocaineboy(This Is How) You Make My Heart a Hunter by ConsultingAggressive (consultingdepressive)
Most or perhaps all of corpsereviver2’s fics seem to be accessible via this Internet Archive page. The longer ones are linked individually below.
An Acquired Taste by corpsereviver2
He’s My Libertine by corpsereviver2
Night Shift by corpsereviver2
The Diary of a Young Omega by corpsereviver2
The Reluctant Bonded by corpsereviver2By ihuntyoudown:
He Loves You
Reproduction - Wayback Link / Anon on kinkmeme
The Great Amendment of 1998
Vengeance Is MineThe Ichor of Talos by Nikoshinigami
The Orpheus Crucible by NikoshinigamiProfessional Boundaries by ureshiiichigo
The first time (was not at Barts) by wakeneveReblogging to share the joy of previously lost fics.