Down the memory hole...

August 26, 2010 7:18 PM

Remember Russ Kick? Remember the Memory Hole?

Does anyone know what happened to the memory hole? Did it get taken down? Insidious reasons, perhaps?

The wikipedia page doesn't say when/why it got taken down, but thememoryhole.org link is dead. The last post on the internet archive was from October 27, 2009.

posted by whimsicalnymph to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

The Internet Archive material (donated by Alexa) is sometimes delayed by months.

Google search of site:thememoryhole.org shows a number of cached pages; a random sampling found the most recent date of these to be June 20, 2010.
posted by dhartung at 8:01 PM on August 26, 2010

One of my favorite sites! The domain was last updated July 29th:

Domain ID:D87693852-LROR
Domain Name:THEMEMORYHOLE.ORG
Created On:19-Jun-2002 21:54:37 UTC
Last Updated On:29-Jul-2010 07:25:31 UTC
Expiration Date:19-Jun-2011 21:54:37 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:pair Networks, Inc.d/b/a pairNIC (R103-LROR)
Status:HOLD
Status:PENDING DELETE RESTORABLE
posted by fake at 12:19 AM on August 27, 2010

Response by poster: I weep for the loss of this site. We need the memory hole now as much as ever. I suppose WikiLeaks is the new watchdog site?
posted by whimsicalnymph at 9:40 AM on August 27, 2010