diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 70dbb52..7cf8018 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,11 @@ # wiki.bash-hackers.org +| :bulb: See [start.md](start.md) to get straight to business | +| --- | + The popular wiki.bash-hackers.org had its DNS expire in April 2023, with the owner seemingly being incommunicado. It looked like this domain would be in the region of €1k to purchase - ouch. -Fortunately, Archive.org has snapshotted this website, and so we can extract wiki.bash-hackers.org from archive.org's Wayback Machine. +Fortunately, archive.org has snapshotted this website, and so we can extract wiki.bash-hackers.org from archive.org's Wayback Machine. Additionally, the web server behind wiki.bash-hackers.org is still running, for now, so we can use an entry in our `hosts` file (`/etc/hosts` on *nix, `c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts` on Windows) that reads: @@ -48,7 +51,7 @@ curl -s -X GET "http://web.archive.org/web/20220615023742/https://wiki.bash-hack ``` -Because the timestamp in the URL may or may not match. So we use this API call to locate genuine resources. +Because, obviously, the timestamp in the URL may or may not match. So we use this API call to validate that a desired resource exists, and if so, locate the latest available copy of it. ## Extracting the Dokuwiki Markup