The free NIPS proceedings LeCun's DjVu demo pioneered now live on at the official papers.nips.cc site, independent of nips.djvu.org's survival

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Yann LeCun's own account of the DjVu free-NIPS-archive demo ends with a claimed handoff: "Eventually, the NIPS conference stopped making printed proceedings and started hosting all the books on their website (nips.cc), including our scans." This is independently corroborated, not merely repeated: the official NeurIPS proceedings index at papers.nips.cc, fetched directly on 2026-08-13, lists a complete run beginning with "Neural Information Processing Systems 0 NIPS 1987" and "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 1 NIPS 1988," continuing forward through NeurIPS 2025.

The significance is structural rather than textual: the same early-volume content the DjVu demo pioneered making freely accessible in 2000 is now hosted at the conference's own institutional domain, independent of whether nips.djvu.org itself survives. It does not — see claim-nips-djvu-org-domain-no-longer-resolves-2026 — but the free-access outcome LeCun frames as the point of the demo persisted structurally anyway, carried forward by the conference itself rather than by the original demonstration site.

This is the more interesting half of the 2026-08-13 verification: link rot claimed the infrastructure, not the mission.