U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Census Bureau raw file server (www2.census.gov)
Database · written 1990 · released 1996
Why this matters
A bare Apache directory index behind the Census website, holding decades of raw survey files, geography shapefiles, technical documentation and abandoned products that are linked from nowhere else. Navigating it is like browsing the Bureau's basement. Researchers use it to rescue tables that vanished from the main site.
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https://www2.census.gov/
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Part of a collection · step 7 of 8
Graveyards of the Web
A live server full of files linked from nowhere.
Cite
U.S. Census Bureau. "U.S. Census Bureau raw file server (www2.census.gov)." 1990. Released 1996. https://www2.census.gov/ (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0104).