Ok so here is what I did to get the pictures.
You open a developer console in your browser (in my browser it is F12), and you inspect the html element that holds the text of the post. It should look something like this:
At the top there is the button to inspect the elements, on the left you select the portion of the page that holds the text, and then on the right side you can see the actual html text of the post.
Now, you can copy the text into some text editor and you will see something like this:
So the highlighted text is the missing image (one of many). Great, now you have the links or urls, but of course, the images are no longer there.
So now you go to the wayback machine here:
https://archive.org/
and you copy the url of the image into the search bar:
You hit enter and good news - we are presented with a screen that says there is one snapshot of the url
You click the link (
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig100.jpg) and you get the image:
And then you can do that for all the other images. The images seem to be numbered from 100 going upward, and assuming they would be present in the same snapshot, you can maybe try these urls to get the images without going through the whole process for each one:
Code:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig100.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig101.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig102.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig103.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig104.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig105.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig106.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig107.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig108.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig109.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig110.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig111.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig112.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig113.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig114.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig115.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig116.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig117.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig118.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig119.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig120.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig121.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig122.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig123.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig124.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig125.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig126.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig127.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig128.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig129.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig130.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig131.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig132.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig133.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig134.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig135.jpg
https://web.archive.org/web/20020818001545/http://www.ncknives.com/ImagesMisc/fig136.jpg
(the last one - 137 - has a different url, it should be here though:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/http://www.ncknives.com/Knives/Folder23.jpg)
Instead of just giving you the images I included the whole procedure, because I feel it is quite helpful and can be easily applied by anyone when this problem happens.
OR, you can try to search for the whole page in the wayback machine. I thought this would not work since the forum is for authenticated users only, but maybe that was not the case in 2005 - there is one snapshot in the wayback machine that shows the whole thread with pictures. I guess that is a reminder for me - always try the easiest thing first.
Code:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050423231205/https://www.knifenetwork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4011