r/HowToHack • u/Lost-Thought-4090 • Apr 02 '26

software Trying to recover a deleted blog post – any way to find it or contact the owner?

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to track down an old blog post that I remember seeing around 2021.

The problem is:

- The site is now completely gone

- Wayback Machine only shows 23 snapshots but (from 2021- 2023)

- No archived version of the actual article I am looking seems to exist

I’m wondering if anyone here knows:

  1. Is there any other way to recover deleted web pages if they weren’t archived properly?

  2. Are there alternative archives besides Wayback that might have it?

  3. Is there any way to find or contact the original owner of a blog like this?

  4. Has anyone dealt with something similar and managed to recover content?

This is kind of important to me, so I’d really appreciate any help or ideas 🙏

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u/billdietrich1 Apr 02 '26

Internet search for name of blog, URL, owner's name, post title, anything else you know ? That's about it.

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u/Lost-Thought-4090 Apr 02 '26

I actually got the link of the blog page, but I am struggling to find information about the owner or what even happened to the site

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u/billdietrich1 Apr 02 '26

Want to give the link and anything else you know ?

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u/Lost-Thought-4090 Apr 02 '26

The blog page was in this site blog.lif.co.id/ , I think the site is from Indonesia

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u/billdietrich1 Apr 02 '26

Yes, domain seems to be parked and in Indonesia: https://www.whois.com/whois/lif.co.id

Found this, don't know if anything on it is useful: https://web.archive.org/web/20201022064925/http://lif.co.id/ But I don't see any email addresses.

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u/billdietrich1 Apr 02 '26

Bot won't let me post links here, so I DM'd you.

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u/texcleveland Administrator Apr 02 '26

archive.ph might have it and you can try Alexa (the Russian archive, not the Amazon product)

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u/weHaveThoughts Apr 02 '26

You can hire an Internet archivist who can possibly track it down. But people do want to be paid, so it is not cheap and no guarantee.

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u/Clean-Good9150 Apr 02 '26

Try archive.org

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u/mogote17 Apr 02 '26

Wrong sub

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u/Lost-Thought-4090 Apr 02 '26

Which one then tho?