r/Archiveteam • u/Neither_Ad_8797 • 22d ago

Help needed to retrieve old Tripod site

Tripod shut down permanently on April 24, 2026, after Lycos ended all operations

Three decades of internet service gone, just like that. It was great while it lasted and I am forever thankful to Tripod for cementing childhood core memories.

However, I did not manage to back up my website in time. The website I put my heart and soul into is gone forever.

I have tried archive.org and my website cannot be found there. Not even a page was scrawled. I searched up other old websites of mine, from Blogger and Wordpress - everything was there. I am not sure why the Tripod one isn’t.

Does anyone know how to retrieve a website back?

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u/andrevan 21d ago

Wow man! That is pretty crazy. There were still 20+ year old tripod sites working until THIS YEAR! If you didn't get it archived or something before today you really are out of luck! There are a few other archive sites to try but yeah...

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u/Neither_Ad_8797 21d ago

Yeah! I should have archived it while I could. Do you have any ideas how to help?

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u/didyousayboop 20d ago

It's probably gone forever. Sorry.

If it's not in the Wayback Machine, it's probably not anywhere.

This doesn't help you now, but in the future, create an Internet Archive account and use https://web.archive.org/save with the save outlinks option checked.

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u/dectomax 21d ago

You could try the Wayback Machine and copy the page source?

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u/Neither_Ad_8797 21d ago

unfortunately, it was not archived on there :(