No idea what happened to the million. But the page is an interesting artefact that, in its current state is, I venture, a more accurate keep[sake of the internet than it would be had it all stayed up and running.
The article suggests that:
Given the existence of powerful and widely accessible tools such as the Wayback machine, this kind of restorative curation may well be within reach.
To which I would be fairly vehemently opposed