The Internet has never been remembered?The web "snapshot" function disappeared

From August 2nd, some netizens have discovered that the "snapshot" function in the Baidu search engine has disappeared silently. Without a official statement, this function of accompanying everyone has quietly withdrew from the stage of history and replaced the past to replace the past The functional position of the web snapshot is a gray small triangle arrow logo. Clicking on this logo can only display two options: "collection" and "report".

After testing, even if you directly access the page link of the webpage snapshot, it will not work. It will directly display the error code of "Der Error" and cannot access the page. Both search engine Baidu and Sogou have been removed from this feature. It is reported that the offline snapshot function is offline because of the changes in web technology development.

What is the web snapshot? This is a function that accompanies early search engines. The main function is to backup the webpage when the search engine is included in the webpage. At the same time, the backup content is stored in the cache of their server. At that time, the search engine can show the web information that the system captured. Web snapshot can retain the content information of a web page before modifying. In the early years, because the search engine and web pages were not stable, it played a significant role in the faster and more stable webpage snapshot function than direct access to the webpage. Over the years of Internet technology, the operation of search engines and web pages has been quite stable. Webpage snapshot functions are used to "dig grave", that is, to find a person's "black history" through this function search.

For example, in the "rice circle", the behavior of "digging grave" is quite common, and it can effectively realize the previous experience of digging a star through web snapshots. With the support of this function, the star more than ten years ago more than ten years ago The Internet speeches can be found clearly, which includes both the content that the star has not deleted and the content that has been deleted by itself. Even the forum post that has been closed for a long time can be found. What is even more worrying is that there have been many functions such as webpage snapshot for human flesh search and invade personal privacy. Web snapshot is also regarded as the historical concentration of the Internet black history. The snapshot also clearly remembers. From this level, the removal of the web snapshot function will make the Internet "archeological" party unemployment, but it is not a good thing for individuals.

The reporter asked on Baidu, and he could easily find countless users who were distressed by web snapshots to expose their privacy, and this issue was discussed more than ten years ago. In 2008, some netizens found that their personal contact information left on the website many years ago could still be found. The netizen thought that he would receive a spam from time to time because the web snapshot leaked personal privacy. In 2007, the media reported that Baidu Snapshot hidden slander articles, and the parties of the article claimed 150,000 yuan. Until recent years, some people are still discussing whether web snapshot will infringe on personal privacy and whether there is any infringement.

What's more serious is that web snapshot functions have been used as cyber crimes by illegal people. According to the public documents of the China Truth Document Network, there are ten cases related to web pages. For example, on October 22, 2020, the Rudong County People's Court of Jiangsu Province sentenced to such a case. Baidu snapshot, issued illegal information, the court tried to determine that Liu constituted a procedure and tool for illegal control of computer information systems.

There is no insight on the Internet, and Internet memories are also precious memories of generations. It witnessed the Shi Shiyi and the vicissitudes of the Internet world. Whether it is privacy or online crime, the wrong person who is wrong is not the function of the webpage snapshot, and it is not rare. For Internet memory, how to keep and how to show, maybe more explorations.

Yangtze Evening News reporter Shen Zhao

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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