For those of you who are old enough to remember: Windows Update used to be a website that scanned your machine using an ActiveX control.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    2 years ago

    The referenced windows update website, v3.windowsupdaterestored.com, can’t be loaded on Firefox because it uses vbscript instead of javascript.

    That’s make me wonder, does the internet archive preserve those sites? Or do those IE-specific sites lost forever because their contents can’t be indexed by the internet archive?

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      2 years ago

      It probably preserves them as much as it can. Unless the links are only lead to by links loaded through vbscript, it’s all just text.