Challenge for the internet savvy
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:31 pm
With the recent and recurring discussions of the original "pageant" puzzle, I thought it would be fun to go back and read all the comments on that page and watch how it unfolded.
Unfortunately, that's proving to be non-trivial, so I'm hoping someone here is a better internet sleuth than I am.
The puzzle's page on the WSJ site is apparently no longer on the WSJ site.
So I tried the Wayback Machine and found that it was archived! Yay. So I looked at the archived page, and trying to show the comments does not work for me, but looking at the raw html I can see 50(?) of them in there. (That's consistent with what I vaguely remember about how the comments worked - 50 would be initially loaded and there was a show more button to keep reading.)
Unfortunately, the 50 most recent are the least interesting - the ones posted after the reveal with people's laments. It's the early ones, with the transition from confidence to questioning, that really tell the story.
And that's the limit of my internet sleuthing ability. Does anyone else know any way to go back and get the other comments?
Unfortunately, that's proving to be non-trivial, so I'm hoping someone here is a better internet sleuth than I am.
The puzzle's page on the WSJ site is apparently no longer on the WSJ site.
So I tried the Wayback Machine and found that it was archived! Yay. So I looked at the archived page, and trying to show the comments does not work for me, but looking at the raw html I can see 50(?) of them in there. (That's consistent with what I vaguely remember about how the comments worked - 50 would be initially loaded and there was a show more button to keep reading.)
Unfortunately, the 50 most recent are the least interesting - the ones posted after the reveal with people's laments. It's the early ones, with the transition from confidence to questioning, that really tell the story.
And that's the limit of my internet sleuthing ability. Does anyone else know any way to go back and get the other comments?