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HowTo: access old wiki links

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If you run across a post that links to the old wiki that is no longer available, you can still view most of that content with the Wayback Machine website.

E.g. I was looking for which interior bits are real leather and found a post that linked to this: https://www.nsxprime.com/wiki/Leather. Of course that link doesn't work anymore.
  1. Copy the address of the link to your clipboard
  2. Go to https://archive.org/
  3. In the Wayback Machine section at the top, click into the box that says "enter URL or keywords" and paste your link from step 1, then hit Enter
  4. A calendar view will open showing the dates they captured that link's contents. Click on the most recent year that has any black bars above it (usually 2019 or older)
  5. Each day of that year will be shown in the calendar, with days a capture was taken having a blue circle around them. Hover your mouse over one of those blue circle days
  6. A window will pop up next to your mouse cursor showing the time a capture was taken that day. Click on that time
  7. It may take a few seconds or more, but the contents of that wiki page from that date will load in your browser, like this:
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Pretty much all the text content seems to be there, although a lot of images are not. Unfortunately the search function does not work. if you get a page that contains a 403 error, clicking another one of the black bars on the timeline near the top will jump you to a different date that may have a usable capture of the content.

That wiki had a lot of great info in it, so it's nice to still be able to access it.

If you just want a link to start browsing the wiki from, this will work: https://web.archive.org/web/20160724075754/http://www.nsxprime.com/wiki/Main_Page
 
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If you run across a post that links to the old wiki that is no longer available, you can still view most of that content with the Wayback Machine website.

Suggestion: When you locate old content on the Wayback site, copy that content and post it on Prime.

For example, I did that here with wheel specs.

 
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