H4x0r Economist: You Only Think It's Over

It was just another day of guilty pleasure on the Internet - I mean, what are Mondays for, AMIRITE? - spending a few minutes with Strong Bad, the cast and crew of YTMND.COM, and, in a rare half-nelson of nostalgia, I looked up Dan Weaver's perpetually-poignant politinomical perodical: H4x0r Economist.
Or, at least, I tried.

Try it yourself.

Yeah. It's closed. Empty.

It's gone, the man says, a fair ship of comic economics, now digital detritus, left floating only a black placard stamped with a dismissive, plasma-screen green, street tribute to Ben Bernanke.

There was once a site. Then, he killed it.

Weaver, I may be the only one to go on record to say this outright, but I will not stand here a man convinced he has done his diligence, without delivering my assertion to you that what you have done, sir, is no less than horrific.

And it will also stand on the record that, if you had read my blog post on digital continuity, you would have realized the simple fact that you can't get away with that shit on the Internet.

What man is it that could purport to plow anything under that's made of simple text and pictures, when storage is so painfully plentiful, bandwidth so wantonly wide, and when entire fields of servers exist solely to catalog every piece of the Internet standing from point-to-point, guaranteeing a pristine copy of your comic for all eternity?

The dramatic reveal:
Wayback Machine's Copy of H4x0r Economist from August 2007

It's clear that the world takes some goods as public from their inception. Web Comics are one of them. Let it be known that We have your comics, and We will always have your comics. And to those that would have me cast off H4x0r Economist as the residue of a dead administration, I say Bernanke be damned - we are still in The Age of Gr33|\|$P4|\|!

Phear!