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A web archiving practitioner urges readers to back up websites they love before they vanish, and walks through easy tools like the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension for saving pages and sites in the standard WARC format.
A web archiving professional shares a personal story about losing a beloved fansite and makes the case that anyone can and should back up websites themselves, walking through easy personal web archiving tools like the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension.
Fog-Bank documents a multi-source archiving system that continuously captures, deduplicates and permanently stores every frame from FogCam, the oldest webcam feed, using four redundant pollers, sha-256 fingerprints, lossless JPEG XL and Cloudflare R2, plus an outage forensics record.
Spain has ordered the blocking of Archive.today and its mirrors, accusing the service of facilitating illegal access to copyrighted content without requiring a court ruling.
The Internet Archive has implemented protections on the Wayback Machine to handle high-volume automated traffic, which sometimes blocks legitimate users. They are improving bot detection and advising users to contact support if incorrectly blocked.
A blog post from the Internet Archive analyzing recent link-rot studies (Pew, Zittrain, ODU) and showing how the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of otherwise dead webpages, highlighting the ongoing problem of web decay and the role of web archives.
SingleFile is a free and open-source browser extension and CLI tool that can fully package any web page into a single HTML file, preserving images, CSS, and more. It works permanently offline and supports auto-save, batch save, and cloud storage.