Possible to view a dead internet forum? (Google cached?

[rjx]

An internet forum I used to frequent is no longer available. I have found a few pages I wanted to view just by looking on google and clicking on the cached links.

But is there a way to view the entire forum like I used to when it was alive?

Thanks

[andrew247]

Archive.org probably have at least some of the forum cached, although maybe not every page.

[rjx]

Originally Posted by andrew247

Archive.org probably have at least some of the forum cached, although maybe not every page.

Thanks for the link. I tried it, but it said the site I entered "has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."

Any other ideas?

Thanks.

[andrew247]

Thanks for the link. I tried it, but it said the site I entered "has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt."

This means that the website owner did not want the archive.org robot to crawl and index the forum. This was probably to save bandwidth, because sometimes crawlers can be quite bandwidth intensive, especially if they are repeatedly downloading all images etc.

Any other ideas?

No, sorry.

[leftybogs]

not really sure if its really possible... if google already cached the newest version, probably not.