# What happened to the archives?!! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 24, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945 "2008-09-24T05:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sicatrix27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sicatrix27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sicatrix27)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/1 "2008-09-24T05:11:01Z")
I use to come on to this site just to read the archives but it seems like they dissapeared. I hope I’m just stupid and cant find them. Because I would hate it if they took it out just so people can buy the books ---
**Author:** ![sicatrix27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sicatrix27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sicatrix27)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/2 "2008-09-24T05:29:39Z")
seriously what the hell happened to them? ---
**Author:** ![Wiltshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea5d25/32.png) [@Wiltshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wiltshire)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/3 "2008-09-24T11:05:58Z")
Huh. Good question. (Well, your thread title could have been more descriptive. I thought this was about the U.S. National Archives and Cheney’s refusal to preserve his presidential records, or something like that.) Ah, you mean the archive of the Straight Dope columns. The link on the main page was [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/index.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/index.html) - It’s now this: > [@](#): > > 404 Page Not Found > > The page you requested was not found. > > The Straight Dope website has recently been upgraded, and in the process we changed all of our URLs. We’ve tried to ensure that the old URLs for each article transfer directly to the new ones, but we may have missed a few. If you’re seeing this screen because we missed one, we apologize. > > If you’re looking for a specific column and can’t get to it, try searching for a keyword or phrase. Yes, dudes, you missed one… The main page! :smack: 😃 Interestingly, the search still works. Yeah, if it’s going to be permanent, that’d be a real bummer. Let’s hope the index pages for the archives simply haven’t made it through the upgrade yet. I for one refuse to believe that the owners of this website would be silly enough to think that a potential gain in book sales could be anywhere near the benefits from the continued attraction and retention of online visitors. Well, if not, there’s always > **[The Straight Dope Archive: Gateway](https://web.archive.org/web/20071224173657/www.straightdope.com/columns/)** > > The past 5 year's worth of Straight Dope columns in their entirety > **[The Straight Dope Archive: Classics](https://web.archive.org/web/20071230082626/www.straightdope.com/classics/classicindex.html)** > > Straight Dope Classic Columns > **[The Straight Dope Archive: 2005 Columns](https://web.archive.org/web/20071224152443/www.straightdope.com/columns/2005index.html)** > > 2005 Columns > **[The Straight Dope Archive: 2006 Columns](https://web.archive.org/web/20071224233535/www.straightdope.com/columns/2006index.html)** > > 2006 Columns ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/4 "2008-09-24T11:06:48Z")
I’ve moved your post to **About This Message Board**. Welcome back. If you mean you want to read Cecil’s past columns or Staff Reports, they’re still available from the [Front Page](http://www.straightdope.com/) If you’re trying to search the message board for older threads/posts, then you might have run into a current problem, which the tech guy is trying to fix. Since the upgrade of the servers and software a few weeks ago, there are a few things that still need fixed. Currently, some seem to be able to search the board, and some can’t. Hopefully, this will get straighted out in a few days. **samclem** General Questions Moderator Now that I preview, I made a bad assumption. :smack: The Home Page archives are indeed NOT FOUND as of this morning. Hopefully the search feature on both pages gets fixed rather quickly. ---
**Author:** ![sicatrix27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sicatrix27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sicatrix27)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/5 "2008-09-24T17:28:38Z")
Thank you very much kind sirs. I am forever in debt to you. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/6 "2008-09-24T23:05:30Z")
Well, they seem to be working as of this minute. I promise NOTHING if you try later tonight. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/7 "2008-09-28T12:32:19Z")
The problem I’m having is that I only get the last four pages of posts in any forum, regardless that I’m requesting “Posts in the last 100 days” or however it’s worded. I’ve been unable to spend much time online this summer and I’m pretty bummed that now I can only catch up with General Questions from the last few days – which was exactly when I began to have time to read again. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveroptic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiveroptic/32/8257_2.png) [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-archives/464945/8 "2008-09-28T12:38:48Z")
Ah. Found my answer [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10199399&postcount=239).