TL, DR: Use the "Wayback Machine"This forum has been running for at least 18 years, and some of the pages our posts link to go offline every day.
If you click on a link in an old post and get "page not found", don't assume you can't read that page.
There's a good chance the linked page was saved by the
Internet Archive.
To find out, and to read the archived page if so:
1. Copy the link URL
2. Go to https://web.archive.org in your web browser
3. Paste the link URL into the search bar at the top center of https://web.archive.org
4. If it was backed up, you will see a timeline with black bars at each time that page was saved
5. Click on the year you want (for news articles, I suggest the oldest year)
6. In the calendar displayed for that year, hover your mouse over a blue dot
(it will display the backup times in a popup window)
7. Click on the time of the backup you wantFor an illustrated version of the above, you can go to:
WikiHow article: Use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine The official video tutorial is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ts1tu1BiSuY&t=602and the official help page, here:
https://help.archive.org/help/using-the-wayback-machine/SUGGESTION: If you are putting a link in your post, and want to be sure that
the Internet Archive backs up the linked page, you can go to
https://web.archive.org and post the link into the "Save Page Now" box
at bottom right. You will also have to click on the "Save Page Now" button
on the resulting page.