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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by kutkloon7 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:55AM (#15019361)
This is a very important reason why books, in general, contain better information that websites. On websites, people care a lot less about the correctness of the information. You can just update stuff later (of course, this doesn't always happen).

Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by rahiel on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:18PM (#15019583)
> Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

I had the same experience and that's why I made a browser extension that archives pages when you bookmark them. (https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror)

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by kbenson on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:33PM (#15019730)
Maybe something that archives to IPFS would be interesting. As things are marked as interesting, they are both archived and distributed based on interest.
Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by jandrese on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:44PM (#15021103)
I still have my bookmarks.html file I started building in 1995, but almost everything in it has rotted away. It's a shame too because a lot of the stuff in there would still be useful or interesting, but nobody wants to pay even a nominal fee to keep it online.
Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by j_s on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:13PM (#15020805)
I collected a list of ~15+ archival tools on a discussion of Wallabag last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882

Happy to discover yours!

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by ernsheong on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @09:26PM (#15024279)
Here's one more! https://www.pagedash.com

Launching soon. We use a browser extension to mine your current tab on a click of a button!

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by Crontab on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @06:24PM (#15023286)
> I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

I've recently had this problem with some online fiction that I had bookmarked. Now, I was able to recover thanks to the Wayback Machine, but I really shouldn't depend on that.

I should really put some thought into archiving pages I like or getting a Pinboard account.

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by concernedctzn on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:12PM (#15019504)
I have this problem too, thankfully archive.org has been able to resurrect most of the text based sites I bookmarked ages ago. Such an invaluable resource.