Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ...
by rahiel on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @12:18PM
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> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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> 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
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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.
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.