The Church of BSD (2005)

unixprogram.com

34 points·stargrave··10 comments

To use (whatever is your provider, often Google's) cache, just replace the protocol with "cache" like this:

cache://www.unixprogram.com/churchofbsd/

Or use the Internet Archive / WayBackMachine (from 5.1.): https://web.archive.org/web/20180105140154/http://www.unixpr...

Hmm, how does this work? Is it a browser thing, or ISP providing this?

It redirects from a google search.

This is a massive misconstruement.

There's no "cache://" "protocol". This is simply Google's search query parser being extremely forgiving with "cache://" vs "cache:", which is the correct syntax (as documented on various sites on the internet).

When you type "cache:" or "cache://" into Chrome (FF not tested) you'll see the top result it's about to execute is a search. It just sends the string to google.com.

If you go to google.com manually and input "cache:www.example.com" as the search query, you won't get a results page, you'll go directly to the cached page.

I put 2005 on this because of https://web.archive.org/web/20050205225509/http://www.unixpr..., but it feels like it might be earlier. Anybody know?

22.08.2000

Wow. How did you determine this?

That's the date of an email quoted in the text, so it's really just a lower bound on the article year, no?

That's what Google says, which I thought was based on a "clever look" at Last-Modified or explicit dates in the article. However, the articles mentions Windows XP, which I think wasn't known until 2001. So Google might have just picked the only parseable date from the page.

Edit: After about 5 minutes curl answered: Last-Modified: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:40:54 GMT (which is unsurprising given the web.archive.org info showing amends of the page)

aaaand it's down

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