Discussion: Down The Memory Hole! Melania Trump's Iffy Bio Scrubbed From Internet

[theghostofeustacetilley]

https://web.archive.org/web/20120730032459/http://www.melaniatrump.com/

[mantan]

They’re fleshing out those 7 missing years of…uh…modeling in the 90s.

[yskov]

Don’t worry, I’m sure the Russians have it.

[lizzymom]

@zacherle

the bio states that she got her degree 'at university in Slovenia." Vague enough?

The page will stay down until Donnie has had someone fake an institution and build a backstory…

Of course, they will have a hard time explaining how she finished that when she ran off to Milan to model.

Oh, wait, it was correspondence school — or the first online school in Slovenia — oh, or wait, it was a condensed curriculum that you could complete 4 years in less than one — the possibilities are endless!

ETA: the “someone” who will fake the institution and build a backstory will be Guccifer2, who, intelligence sources now believe, is not a person but a group of Russian hackers…

Fits, don’t it? Vlad, you do me this favor and I promise to take care of Crimea for you…

[jw1]

Now here’s something really weird that I’d not experienced before.

The Wayback Machine

An internet archival service that takes snapshots of ALL websites
appearing on the internet at any given time-- historically.

I’m able to dredge up a version of her website from approx Feb 2012 or so-- an older version–but none since.
(And there are appox 100 instances shown for snapshots since,)
I wasn’t aware that websites could be scrubbed from The Wayback Machine–
but that is what looks to have happened.

jw1

[lestatdelc]

Double Plus Good that.

[jkrogman]

Yeah, it’s no coincidence that Trump’s wife is also a dirty, rotten liar.

[sickneffintired]

@lizzymom

Oh, yes, and wife-y gets the same treatment (remember Hillary in 1992??), so that should be no surprise to Don the Con.

There’s a saying in America, Donnie: what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Donald : WHAAAAAA…WHAAAAAAAA…
I’m being treated very very unfairly. These people are rigging my history against me.

[jw1]

Eustace–
Are you pulling up recent versions?
See my post preceding this one.

jw1

[zsak]

@jw1

I wasn’t aware that websites could be scrubbed from The Wayback Machine–

There is a way to do it if you look at the help link on the wayback website.

How can I have my site’s pages excluded from the Wayback Machine?

You can exclude your site from display in the Wayback Machine by placing a robots.txt file on your web server that is set to disallow User-Agent: ia_archiver. You can also send an email request for us to review to info@archive.org with the URL (web address) in the text of your message.

[sickneffintired]

@old_curmudgeon

And when The Donald tires of her, she’ll go down the memory hole. All of her.

Like Bill Maher said : “He kept the box she came in so he can return her when she turns 50”

[lestatdelc]

If she is a stage prop, we can comment on the shitty set and slam the set dresser and designer.

[maxaroo]

As the Huffington Post noted last week, that may not be accurate.

The reason it “may not be accurate” is because it was an ought and ought lie.

[jw1]

@zsak

There is a way to do it if you look at the help link on the wayback website.

One would think the calendar(s) and timeline showing the snapshots would be scrubbed then too.
Again, I’ve been using this archival site for a long time-- and not come across this peculiarity.

I understand the function of robots.txt-- and how it can halt searchbots from cataloging a site.
But it should-- in no way affect the already captured versions.
That was my point.

jw1

[yskov]

Owners can request to have pages removed. A page can also include a code that prevents the archive from collecting it. Or the page can get much of its info from another site that is not collected for whatever reason.

Pages that don’t have many links can also get skipped for long periods, but I doubt that’s an issue here.

(Someone correct me if I’m wrong about this stuff.)

[lcelsie]

It is now on Hillary’s private server. Don’t worry though…Putin will release it to the FBI, right Donald ?

[jw1]

@answerfrog

Why does she squint so much like in the photo?

She’s not squinting IMO. She’s been remodeled.
Have you seen the comparison photos from her youth?
Those eyes are not their original shape.
Almost wicked, the amount of surgery performed, if you do the side-by-side comparison.

jw1

[yskov]

Well, that and mascara in her eyes.

[sysprog]

It’s nice to have money…and now the Donald will just ‘claim’ it’s the ‘smear merchants’ trying to make his wife look bad.

[marby]

This situation is an example of why colleges and universities consider it serious when individuals erroneously claim a degree. The University of Ljubljana is a fine university with an international reputation, and it is now being treated as a joke. That diminishes the credibility of its real students and faculty. Sorry for the lecture, but falsifying a degree IS a big deal.