If you love a website, back it up

Re:If you love a website, back it up by h46u5jytyhtg on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:06PM (#50339926)

I tend to save things I read as PDFs because it feels the most robust archival formal for the future.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by garbagecreator on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:50PM (#50341663)

Plain text is "the most robust archival formal for the future."

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by robotuprising on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:20PM (#50344750)

Plain text is not robust at all. Not now, and not in the futue. Its actually useless.

How do you save images in plain text ? Lot of usefull information is stored in pictures. ie: in technical articles about graphics, hardware. Or some diagrams mentioned and refereced in the text. Even medieval books have pictures, because some things need to be shown, and it is not enough to just write some text about it.

Anyway, youre probably just a very very old troll, typing this on a typewriter...

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by alpaca128 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:58AM (#50349662)

> How do you save images in plain text

Base64, like countless websites. Or just accept that you don't have to act like a lawyer with internet comments and simply save them as image files.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by IAmBroom on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:58PM (#50347468)

We have 5000yo texts.

I mean, technically, we have 7000yo graphics, but they were really too low-res to be functional for archiving data.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by nikisweeting on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @04:53AM (#50349998)

Screenshot is better for web content because OCR is not difficult anymore.

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