I started writing iLind.net back at the beginning of 2000, while still working at the old Star-Bulletin. It’s been a long time.

And, over the years, I’ve linked to tons of articles that appeared in the S-B or the Honolulu Advertiser.

Since the merger of the two newspapers in 2010, the joint online archive has been maintained by the Star-Advertiser.

The old Star-Bulletin links still work, displaying the articles in their original online format.

But the Advertise links are broken. Well, I don’t know if all of them are broken, but that seems to be the case. All the ones I’ve tried have returned this error message.

Google searches will still find the old articles, but the links don’t work. If the Google item includes the date the story appeared, you can visit the Star-Advertiser archive page, locate the issue by publication date, and manually search for the article.

I suppose that’s still a lot easier than in the pre-digital world, where you first searched for stories by subject in a printed index, and then retrieved the microfilm for that publication and time period, loaded it into a microfilm reader, and then fast-forwarded the microfilm to the publication date.

The broken links are a reminder of the difficulties we face in keeping digital history alive and well.