From 2008-11. Tried 4 different options and none seem to work for classic. Just LoD. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

your only option is a google search and that generally yields poor results.

Not if its just for general price comparisons if he isnt looking for specific topics

Op use this:
https://archive.org/web/

You can browse d2jsp classic subforum exactly how it appeared at that date. (Given that it was archived)

yeah gl with that, most links when clicked don't work.

Yea no if the date is highlighted blue and has a snapshot it works 100%

https://web.archive.org/web/20080125101503/http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showforum=271

Random example

Now click an actual thread.

Unless the thread was deleted all you have to do is copy the link where it says: page is available on the web.

Here another rand example of the thread from first page
https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=14311595&f=271

hmm, that's something new. I like that actually, ty.
Never considered to extract the link.
Oh the digging I'm going to do.

Could it help? Also, what are you looking for

Thanks