Full title: Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processors<p>I don't get why they did this, Ark is such a great resource. If there is any cost to keeping the data usable, surely it can't be that much worse for ultra-legacy products that it only makes sense to keep around "newer" (and I use that term very generously) products.
> I hope internet archive have back up of this<p>Even if they had backups[1], that doesn't necessarily mean they'll remain publicly accessible. I learned that the hard way many years ago when my first university Unix account web pages from the 1990s were made inaccessible, effectively permanently AFAICT, after the university IT published a robots.txt on that domain that caused (deliberately or not) Archive to hide them, and then later discontinued use of that domain altogether. I think Archive has since changed their policy regarding robots.txt, but the lesson remains the same.<p>Ever since then I try to remember to archive (e.g. wget -m) important third-party pages and artifacts (PDFs, etc) on my personal server, especially reference materials, memorable articles and blog posts, etc. I wish I had that foresight earlier. Though even before that happened I had already started hosting all my own stuff.<p>I still find Archive's Wayback Machine to be immensely valuable and useful. But if you find yourself going back to the same source over and over again, do yourself and everyone else a favor and archive it yourself, in addition to adding it to the Wayback Machine if it's not already there.<p>[1] The E8400 page is presently available, at least: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230927192341/https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/33910/intel-core2-duo-processor-e8400-6m-cache-3-00-ghz-1333-mhz-fsb/specifications.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20230927192341/https://www.intel...</a>
ARK is a great resource and I used it many times. It's so strange anything got removed. I don't believe saving will be more than a rounding error even if we count only cost of ARK operation (which likely costs a small fraction of intel.com site as a whole).