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For many years, the Zfids website was archived by the British Library for the UK Web Archive.
At first this was done when the site was at its previous location
www.smitha.demon.co.uk/zfids/ (2001-2004) at the address:
https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/*/http://www.smitha.demon.co.uk/zfids/
then when the site was at its current location
www.zfids.org.uk/ (2004-present) at the address:
https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/*/http://www.zfids.org.uk/
Unfortunately, in October 2023 the British Library suffered a "ransomware"
cyber-attack which destroyed access to the archive. In March 2024 the Open Access
Department of the British Library provicded he following statement:
Unfortunately the situation around access to the web archive has not improved since you contacted us in November last year.
We’re continuing to experience disruption following a cyber-attack,
https://www.bl.uk/cyber-incident/ and are working hard to restore services.
We’ve now shared a list of the improvements and restoration of service that
users can expect over the next few months. https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2024/02/restoring-our-services-22-february-2024-update.html
We expect that it will take longer to restore access to the UK Web Archive
because of the scale and complexity of this collection, and we will provide
further details on our plans for this as soon as we can.
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