Twenty-Seven Years of Writing on the Web
This summer the eighth most-read page on this site was the error page. I got Claude to follow the broken links. They led through five platforms and twenty-seven years, and brought 171 lost posts home.
Between July 1 and September 14, the eighth most-viewed page on narendranag.com was “Page Not Found.” It accounted for 3.18% of all views. So, I got Claude to check. All 21 dead addresses people were landing on came from outside, from links to versions of this site that no longer exist.
Some of those addresses ended in .php, which dates them to the WordPress years. Some were bare slugs from a later theme. Following them back turned into an excavation of every place I have published since 1999, most of which I had lost track of. Here’s what those sites looked like, recovered from the Wayback Machine, and what came back with them.