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Why would they do such a thing? The wayback machine is not actually that fast.
It only needs to be downloaded once. I would be more worried about security since this is a bank.
I'm very curious how they got into this situation though. It seems someone copied parts of an archived page.
They archived their own page and are using Internet Archive as a relay?
It's more likely someone inexperienced used the internet archive to recover something they deleted by accident - I assume Barkley's uses some form of source versioning, as banks are usually a mess but not to the point of not storing their code properly, so we can exclude someone with any real experience. The question would then be how it got to production. Again, banks are a mess but regulations around software that handles anything related to money demand that changes to production be peer reviewed.
Barclays isn't a small bank, either. They hire hundreds, if not thousands of software engineers. I'm shocked such a change made it into prod.
My guess is that their front-of-house website is managed by an agency. UK companies love using agencies for shit like this.
Even if someone was that ineperienced to not know how source versioning works (which I honestly can't really imagine in a critical programming-related job), why wouldn't they just download the JS file from the Internet archive and put it on the own website again?
Probably at least as fast as a banking site.
I've seen it used as backup for dead links.