Finding Mermaid website pages which have disappeared.
How to use the Internet Archive to find webpages that were deleted.
There has been commentary that one page or another has disappeared from the Mermaid Charity website as a current scandal unfolds.
So what I am showing here could be used for any website for which you want to find deleted pages. The website is the Internet Archive, and they have 741 billion webpages archived.
So Mermaids’ website link is: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
So at the Internet Archive there is the Wayback Machine, and yes it is named after the Wayback Machine in the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series.
You just put the url that you have into it, press Return (Enter), and you will get a listing listing of all the times it archived the page.
For example for Mermaids you get this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
The link to the archived pages.
I am not sure what all the color coding means, but lets go look at the Mermaids webpage as it was on July 1, 2022. Put your curser over the July 1 date above and this will appear.
The website was archived six times that day. Notice the slide bar to the right. You then just put the cursor over one of the times, I usually do the last time of the list, but any will do. You will the webpage as it saw it on that date. It can be a little slow in uploading, so be patient. You might have to click the reload button also if you get a partial load.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220701143406/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
Most of the time the links work if the page to which the link goes to was also archived.
So clicking on the links of this archived page will take you to other archived pages.
You can find all sorts of material which isn’t on the webpage, or at least I couldn’t find it on 10/6/2022.
This is a page for Press Statements.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220930223838/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/category/press-statements/
For example there is this press release about “Over 2,000 individuals and organizations sign Mermaids’ open letting calling the UK’s four national sporting bodies to support trans-inclusive policies.”
Remember be patient with uploading.
So notice that the date in the link above is 10/6/2022. What happened, is that the Internet archive told me that the page hadn’t been archived, but the Internet Archive found it on the web. It was still online but not deleted by Mermaids. Sometimes an organization will just pull offline the sort of frontpage webpage and not to which it links to.
The Internet Archive asked if I wanted to archive it and I said yes and then a page pops up and I pressed a button, “Save Page,” waited and then it was there.
So you can find hidden pages this way.
So you can see all the groups that supported Mermaid’s letter and download it.
I am sure that these individuals wish they never were associated with Mermaids
https://web.archive.org/web/20220930223741/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/patrons/
So here is the page for the Staff and Trustees.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220811123342/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/staff-and-trustees/
Sometimes the point at which they have started deleting is earlier than you think so you need to go back further.
So in this case I went back to April 1, 2022 and found the Corporate Supporters page with the Starbucks Video.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220331140700/https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/corporate-supporters/
I notice in the Starbucks’ logo her breasts haven’t been removed.
Conclusion
You can find all sorts of material that the trans extremists have deleted by using the Internet Archive and working the links on archived pages.