Recently I had a request from a client to remove a site from the Wayback Machine. If you've never heard of it, I suggest you check it out (it is a service of archive.org that captures website content for posterity).
But why would you want to remove your site? Well, because it's your content and your copyright. Or because you don't want a potential employer seeing an old version of your blog. Or because the design of your site in 1997 is just plain embarrassing.
Until this time, I didn't know if or how site could be removed from the Wayback Machine, but I did some digging and found some pretty clear instructions on removing a site from archive.org
It involves:
- Creating or editing the site's robots.txt file.
- Submitting a request to crawl the site.
Pretty simple, eh, Mr. Peabody?
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