Quote from: grams88 on October 22, 2017, 11:14:50 PM
Hi gui.Iherme

Welcome to the forum,

sorry to hear that the site is now defunct, that must of been a popular one back in the days, the incredible machine was a very fun game and might be something I could go back to and try to complete one day. I've never used the wayback machine before and was wondering if it is a simple one to use. It's a great tool for retrieving old things or old content. I wonder if it would work, say if you were to delete a youtube video, would you be able to salvage that? (Not that I Have deleted anything but asking more as a curiosity thing)

I went a bit off topic there.

Thanks for retrieving some of the stuff.

Hi grams88,

The Wayback Machine it's very simple to use, just go to the homepage and type some web address to view a history of pages that the bots crawled through and saved. As far as I noticed it doesn't save videos or any large content, but I'm not sure. It usually saves whole pages and it's text and images. I've also seen some relatively small files (bellow 100MB) being preserved too.
I tried with YouTube and saw that it preserved some pages completely, others not so much. I tried to play a video; it didn't show actual video, but I could hear the audio of it (had to enable flash cuz old YT doesn't support HTML5), but maybe the saved page was just grabbing the audio/video content from the live version of YT, so, who knows about deleted videos.

I'm sorry to revive such an old topic, but I came across this when searching for the tim-exchange.com forum, since back in the days I posted and downloaded some contraptions from it. Unfortunately, as I feared, it is now defunct. Using the Wayback Machine I was able to find what was a goodbye message from the site owner and download links (most of them are dead too) for a collection of puzzles uploaded from 2007 until 2012. Luckily, one of the download links still worked and I was able to get a copy of this collection and upload it to MEGA so it's easier for more people to download it too. I hope that from doing this, if more people end on this topic looking for the tim-exchange forum, they can at least know what happened and get the puzzles collection as well.

Pages gathered by the Wayback Machine from tim-exchange.com: https://web.archive.org/web/*/tim-exchange.com

Goodbye message from Chris Denman (Site Admin): https://web.archive.org/web/20130602112739/http://www.tim-exchange.com:80/

Puzzle collection download links: https://web.archive.org/web/20140412134915/http://www.tim-exchange.com:80/downloadlinks.htm

The link I found that was still working: http://ge.tt/9f6nAla/v/0?c

New upload I made on MEGA: https://mega.nz/#!F4AF1YjK!N9ncxXjVVQQbJYOLOknuISg4C5Yqorpxw9FAcCDMAgA