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I've started saving web pages, since several of my favorite websites went offline, and some even self-deleted from WayBack Machine. The impression I get is tha
by andai 2y ago
I've started saving web pages, since several of my favorite websites went offline, and some even self-deleted from WayBack Machine.
The impression I get is that if I want something to continue existing, it's my responsibility to make that happen.
On a darker note, this appears to be true of civilization in general...
- foobarian 2y agoI find it interesting to think about this while listening to historical content like the Fall of Civilizations podcast. Tl;dr, if you want something to survive for millennia, it needs to be carved in stone or you need to arrange for monks to keep transcribing it
- pininja 2y agoI only started to really appreciate having a web page archive after cataloging the coffee I drank, which often have pages full of detail about the beans until they sell out and then, poof!, they’re taken offline.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoI think archive.org holds onto copies of websites, even if they're no longer accusable on the wayback machine, as long as they don't get a direct deletion request. If a domain gets parked and someone adds a robots.txt that disallows all, past versions become unavailable in most cases. Very annoying.