People disappear and along with them their website hosting, or websites get taken down, etc. An excellent solution to at least finding the pages again is with the Wayback Machine Web Browser Extension installed.
If a page is not found the extension will prompt whether you want it loaded from the archive. You can also use the extension to quickly save any page you are viewing to the archive to have it preserved. I even have Wayback Machine’s 404 handler on my website where a search page is not found, to offer to check the Wayback Machine Archives.
By opening the Archive you can also browse back time to see how a page changed from the past and the extension will also quickly search Twitter for any mentions of a page.
See https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback-machine-webextension
#technology #opensource #archiving #preservation #404error
Too true. For what it’s worth, something like this is a native feature of Brave.
Yes it does actually have the “search for the page” built in, but not the save a page and other options. For some reason not the full functionality of that extension is all available inside Brave. But I suppose the most essential function is there in Brave.
