hpcalc.org being shut down?

[Garth Wilson]

(01-23-2023 06:01 PM)pier4r Wrote:  

(01-23-2023 09:42 AM)franz.b Wrote:  Will it be necessary to take action to save his huge database?

Little OT.

I think it is always good to have copies of valuable data (if possible). You never know when it is going to stop working (even just due to technical hiccups), so the more copies the more chances for the data to survive.

archive.org keeps archives of most things, and has lots of copies you can look up by date.  There are almost 1300 backups made in the last 25 years of hpcalc.org.  Just go to archive.org and put hpcalc.org/ in their search bar.  I wish I had known this years earlier, as there were lots of sites I had bookmarks to that went down, and I sadly deleted the bookmarks rather than knowing to look up the archives and modifying the bookmarks to bring up the archived copies of those now-gone sites.

Thank you for a great site, Eric!