Oh wow. How did you find them?

Hmm… is there a way to view the comments?

I’m curious about where you dug them up, since Kev had stated that those had been lost forever.

The Web Archive (http://www.archive.org) allows you to view any website, as it appeared in the past.

After looking around, I found this on an archive blogextra.com, the host of the comments:
“May 3 , 2007
Due to the massive interest and use of the system, but not enough server capacity, we have been forced to shut down this service until further notice. Users wishing to claim their data, can log in and use the “Export Feedback Entries” option. This will create an export file in the CAIF format.”

Since the website can’t be accessed anymore, the comments could be lost except if it’s still possible to log in while in the archived page but that seems extremely unlikely.

No, I said that archive.org had them, I just wasn’t sure if there was an easy way to scrape them all out and put them back up somewhere. It seems like “restore an old site from archive.org” must be a solved problem, but I couldn’t find anything on it.

You can feed the comment URLs into archive.org and they come up fine. (I can enthusiastically recommend the Resurrect Pages Firefox plugin as a quick way to browse dead or temporarily-overloaded websites; it gives a one-click shortcut to various archive sites, when it hits a dead page.)