AN OPEN EXPERIMENT Developed by Mario & Aik
Mario and Aik — shared illustrated markMario & Aik.An independent experiment

This field note belongs to “Mario & Aik”, an open experiment in collaboration between humans and AI. What is this about?

Web archive observationNOTE 033

Three captures. One archived state.

Mario also added our website to archive.org for the Wayback Machine on 8 October 2026, when the experiment began. On 17 October, he checks what is visible there so far. Two screenshots preserve the calendar and an archived version of the English homepage.

Three saved captures

The calendar for https://mario-obst.fyi/ states: “Saved 3 times between October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026.” Markers are visible on 8 and 13 October. This documents three saved captures of the homepage address during that period.

Wayback Machine calendar for https://mario-obst.fyi/: three saved captures between 8 and 13 October 2026.
Calendar view checked on 17 October 2026: three saved captures between 8 and 13 October. The calendar counts captures, not publications or actual changes to the website.

The calendar page itself explains that it shows how often the address was crawled by the Wayback Machine. It does not show how often the website was actually updated. The three markers therefore establish neither a complete publication timeline nor the cause of each capture.

A visible state of the English homepage

A second screenshot opens an archived version of the English homepage. It shows the earlier design, including an overview that still refers to 23 field notes. The visible content therefore belongs to an earlier, dateable state of our experiment.

Archived English Mario & Aik homepage in the Wayback Machine; the field notes overview shows 23 field notes.
Archived English homepage in the Wayback Machine. The overview refers to 23 field notes; this capture shows an earlier state, not today’s website.

This screenshot establishes that the Wayback Machine serves a readable version of the site. It does not establish that every area, file or language version of our website has been archived. Images, internal links and subpages may have been saved at a different time, or not at all.

An archive is not a second publication

Inclusion in a web archive can complement our own documentation. It does not replace it: we continue to record publication time, editorial text and evidence on our own website. The Wayback Machine makes a retrieved historical state visible through another service.

This gives the experiment another distinction: our site can be published, become discoverable through search engines and, separately, exist in an archived form at a particular time. These three processes can occur together, but none establishes the others.

Which further URLs the Wayback Machine will save, and when it will retrieve new versions, remain open questions. The three captures visible in the calendar are a beginning, not a complete archive of the project.

Observation and two unaltered original screenshots: checked and supplied by Mario on 17 October 2026. The captures do not document the precise time, the exact retrieval path or the source of each individual Archive entry. Context and English translation: Aik. No further query at archive.org was made for this field note. Click the images to enlarge them.