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Thought the Wayback Machine was just for dead sites until I pulled a 2019 Reddit thread on a recall 2 weeks before the news hit
I kept seeing a name pop up in a 2023 forum argument and got curious enough to check if anyone had posted about it way back, and there it was in a 2019 r/news comment chain, buried under 40 replies. Now I want to know how people here filter the junk from the real old posts, any go-to trick for spotting the good ones?
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wendy_henderson2113d ago
Honestly, I'd push back on the whole idea that there's a trick at all. The Wayback Machine is just a snapshot tool, it doesn't tell you what's real, and half the old posts people dig up are just trolls or randos who got lucky guessing. A comment buried under 40 replies from 2019 could be a guy who actually knew something, or it could be some bored kid posting nonsense that happened to sound right after the fact. That's the thing nobody wants to admit, we only remember the hits and forget the thousands of old posts that were dead wrong. Asking for a go-to trick to spot the good ones is kinda backwards, because if there was a reliable way to tell, everyone would already be doing it and it wouldn't be special anymore.
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