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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 10349282, member: 79705&quot;]The entire Antiquers forum is backed up <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250315000000*/https://www.antiquers.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250315000000*/https://www.antiquers.com/" rel="nofollow">on the Internet Archive&#039;s Wayback Machine</a>. The individual threads (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240616015739/https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240616015739/https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/" rel="nofollow">like here for the Cameo thread</a> c. Jun 2024) may not have perfect formatting, but it&#039;s there. It crawls and saves a new snapshot of pages in it pretty often (if you browse through the top level you&#039;ll note it&#039;s got different dates for when it last got to different pages), but you can also <a href="https://wayback-api.archive.org/save" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wayback-api.archive.org/save" rel="nofollow">initiate a save of any site here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It even has copies of my baby websites from the nineties. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie29" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> That said, nothing is forever so if the Internet Archive is removed (and it&#039;s been threatened before) then we could loose everything.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Times are different now so who knows how digital will fair or fail, but traditionally those who wrote books were the ones who enshrined knowledge. I believe someone suggested Bronwen write one a while back and she said this thread was it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> But I do think an actual book, even if a vanity published one, is a good way to retain the scholarship that has been done here and have it easily referenced for future collectors and scholars. I have thought of it myself, but I&#039;m a baby collector next to you two and anything I wrote would be mostly what I&#039;ve learned here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also a double edged sword...you publish something on a website or in a book and now you&#039;ve made the competition for your collecting go up! Best to write when you think you&#039;re done and/or looking to raise the interest and prices to sell. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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