Why are many, many images from 2005-2010 not loading?

[GabeP15]

They've been deleted, there's NO ARCHIVE of them. how to view them anyways?

[Retail_247]

I mentioned this on the Kmart page in 2022

All the images from around 2005-2010 are just permanently lost while some of the images from around 2011-2012 can still be accessed through the Wayback Machine. However, the Wayback Machine can only get you so far as only about a quarter of the website was archived. Most old snapshots of topics aren't archived at all and the ones that are can only go through around 4-8 pages if that.

Supposedly, according to another user of the forums, the og admin of the site (Chris) "can fix the whole entirety of the amesfanclub.com site plus image attachments on these posts, it's mostly likely that they have all but disappeared for good."

[GabeP15]

UPDATE: Not all of them are lost, Some were seemingly archived in December 2007.

[GabeP15]

Also some of them are still findable from wayback machine dead links.
An example of a December 2007 one is this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071213081732/http://www.amesfanclub.com/forum/viewthread.php?action=attachment&tid=46&pid=5712

[GabeP15]

There may have been some images archived by users or probably still on their computer but I don't know.

[Retail_247]

Like I said some of the images can still be accessed through the Wayback Machine. However, the Wayback Machine can only get you so far, as most of time website wasn't archived at the time when the photos originally worked.

I found that a lot of the older images from the forum were later re-uploaded to various facebook pages