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November 16

Ways to research the publication date of a webpage

Starting with the occasion: The Society of Rock does not give the publication dates of their articles. I would like to know when they have published The “27 Club”…Curse Or Coincidence?. I know how to use the Wayback machine, where the first copy was saved in October 2016. But of course, the time between publication and the first copy can be arbitrarily long. Apparently, there are no external links to the article that could help to constrain the timeframe. Is there another way to research the date, except contacting the creators? --KnightMove (talk) 10:07, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some content management systems put dates into the webpage source (as comments, encoded into urls, or as meta information). In this case, the HTML source for that specific article contains the text:

<meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-10-04"/>
<meta itemprop="dateModified" content="2017-02-21T17:25:42+00:00" />

but there is no real means (beyond archives like WayBack, as you've described) to verify that those dates are accurate. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 16:29, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. --KnightMove (talk) 09:10, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If an article on the web has a visible byline with a date, there is also no obvious means to verify the given date is accurate. --Lambiam 10:48, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Commerce

How to operate computer system — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.112.57.33 (talk) 23:01, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By using an operating system, such as MS Windows, macOS or iOS. When you buy an operating system – possibly pre-installed when you buy a computer – it should come with a manual. --Lambiam 10:44, 17 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is a series of well-known books with titles such as Windows 10 for Dummies, Macs for Dummies and so on. Ignore the rather insulting titles, they are relatively helpful for beginners. MinorProphet (talk) 01:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Windows has a help manual on Microsoft's website, which you can access through it's search bar.

For Apple's macOS, you can find help by simultaneously pressing Command(⌘)+Space to open Spotlight Search. You can also press the Spotlight button on the Menu Bar, which should be next to the Control Center/Notification Center. Furthermore, you can ask Siri.

Linux varies from distribution to distribution, but there should be a help guide in most versions. For GNOME (Ubuntu, Fedora, GNOME OS), you can use their Online Help Guide. For KDE (Kubuntu, KDE Neon), its help guide is in the help menu of the taskbar in a KDE program, or on their website. Explodicator7331 (talk) 14:51, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]