25 years ago, the internet was kludged together with duct tape and a dream.
Sometimes typing in a URL brought up a website.
Sometimes things were just broken.
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Google, then just a bizarrely named startup, would soon offer a solution.
Yes, its been removed.
I know, its sad.
Im sad too, SullivantweetedFriday.
Its one of our oldest features.
These days, things have greatly improved.
So, it was decided to retire it.
SEO workers used it to watch changes made by competitors.
Journalists and researchers checked caches to keep an eye on the historical record.
But Googles cache links have been doomed for a while.
Asthe Vergenoted, a Google engineertweetedthat cache is a basically unmaintained legacy feature back in 2021.
Theres another solution, but its on shaky ground.
Its such an amazing resource, Sullivan tweeted.
We have to talk to them, see how it all might go involves people well beyond me.
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