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Or perhaps a museum is a better word than an archive. Calling it an archive would be misleading, since many contributions are already gone forever, to dead servers, abandoned domains, forgotten hosting bills, or simply the slow decay of the web itself. Even with the best intentions, some pages could never be recovered.

I often find myself wanting to share old links from the Arab GNU/Linux community or long-forgotten personal blogs with friends. One example is a post about how Alaa managed to run Emacs on a Nokia telephone. Too often, these links are painful to browse: pages load slowly, assets are missing, or navigation is simply broken.

So I decided to download what I could and host it on a small server o…

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