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I've tried looking for stuff I posted on craigslist 5 or 6 years ago and nothing was in the wayback machine, only dead links to a few posts.

Apparently the crawls of the site only went a couple/few layers deep, as well as crawls not being conducted daily, and some years had only 2 or 3 crawls for the entire year.

I haven't tried searching my old facebook posts yet though, maybe some sites are more thoroughly catalogued than others.

Perhaps some other entity is storing my old posts, but I doubt that the NSA will allow me to access my own data.



This doesn't mean someone else didn't archive the material.

Though it might not be generally / publicly available. Could still be on sale somewhere.




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