The Wayback machine

February 24, 2002 6:13 PM

The Wayback machine shows some biographical reconstructive surgery for the Secretary of the U.S. Army. Post-Enron collapse bio versus pre-Enron Collapse bio. 1984 style revisionism meet digital storage technology! [story from NTK].
posted by srboisvert (5 comments total)

While on the topic, are there tags that prevent archiving (or at least indicate that you do not wish to be archived?)
posted by srboisvert at 6:15 PM on February 24, 2002

You can use robot.txt to avoid being archived, for more info refer to the FAQ.
posted by riffola at 6:22 PM on February 24, 2002

first spotted on rc3.org on february 15.
posted by rebeccablood at 7:08 PM on February 24, 2002

When I worked at ABC, I found myself changing some reporter's or anchor's bio at least once a week at their requests. They're PR puff pieces for the individual, nothing more. Of course they're going to change them to make themselves look as good as possible.
posted by aaron at 9:19 PM on February 24, 2002

The pre-edit version of the bio is still showing up here.
posted by tpoh.org at 9:49 PM on February 24, 2002