"And anyone who wants to can preserve a Web page, at any time, by going to archive.org/web, typing in a URL, and...

"And anyone who wants to can preserve a Web page, at any time, by going to archive.org/web ⟲, typing in a URL, and clicking “Save Page Now.” (That’s how most of the twelve screenshots of Strelkov’s VKontakte page entered the Wayback Machine on the day the Malaysia Airlines flight was downed: seven captures that day were made by a robot; the rest were made by humans.)"

" The Wayback Machine collects every Web page it can find, unless that page is blocked; blocking a Web crawler requires adding only a simple text file, “robots.txt,” to the root of a Web site. The Wayback Machine will honor that file and not crawl that site, and it will also, when it comes across a robots.txt, remove all past versions of that site. When the Conservative Party in Britain deleted ten years’ worth of speeches from its Web site, it also added a robots.txt, which meant that, the next time the Wayback Machine tried to crawl the site, all its captures of those speeches went away, too. (Some have since been restored.) In a story that ran in the Guardian, a Labour Party M.P. said, “It will take more than David Cameron pressing delete to make people forget about his broken promises.” 

"The Internet Archive is an invaluable public institution, but it’s not a national library, either, and, because the law of copyright has not kept up with technological change, Kahle has been collecting Web sites and making them freely available to the public without the full and explicit protection of the law. "

"Kahle is a digital utopian attempting to stave off a digital dystopia. He views the Web as a giant library, and doesn’t think it ought to belong to a corporation, or that anyone should have to go through a portal owned by a corporation in order to read it. “We are building a library that is us,” he says, “and it is ours.”

"Six hundred thousand people use the Wayback Machine every day, conducting two thousand searches a second. “You can see it.” He smiles as he watches. “They’re glowing books!” He waves his arms. “They glow when they’re being read!”"

Jeg har lavet verdens mindst populære Drupal-modul. Det rider på ryggen af archive.org ⟲ og virker fint: http://vertikal.dk/linkrot-solved-problem ⟲

http://timetravel.mementoweb.org/ ⟲ er en art http://archive.org

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb ⟲

Linkrot is a solved problem

Using a text filter for Drupal and the Wayback machine.

Time Travel

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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What the Web Said Yesterday

The Web dwells in a never-ending present. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its past.