I hate that sinking feeling when searching for POVRAY tips and source files 
excited that I may find a solution to a problem only to find that the page 
in question has long since expired.

Well thanks to modern technology we now have The Way Back Machine at our 
disposal.

http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

put in a url link and you can find stuff that long since disappeared.

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"POV" <sim### [at] mailcom> wrote:
> I hate that sinking feeling when searching for POVRAY tips and source files
> excited that I may find a solution to a problem only to find that the page
> in question has long since expired.
>
> Well thanks to modern technology we now have The Way Back Machine at our
> disposal.
>
> http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
>
> put in a url link and you can find stuff that long since disappeared.

Whoa this thing actually works, well for the 1st try anyway.
The page is their but no zip file that is linked to the page.

So I guess if its not ON the page, the file is lost

Dead links page:
http://objects.povworld.org/links10.html

Found:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000622234809/http://quark.vpplus.com/~redbeard/raytrace/utils/bezier.html
but no zip.

Nice find on the "wayback",
http://home.earthlink.net/~openuniverse/

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"alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> So I guess if its not ON the page, the file is lost

Sometimes images get lost too.

I've been considering whether it would be a good idea to aggressively solicit
authors to convert their works to Object Collection format (or at least permit
others to do so).

-Mike

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