howto: Web archiving, web persistence, web fragility  rev 10 jul 2019

Started researching this when i realised that Snopes.com
  is not archived on the WayBack Machine.

 "The internet is forever, except when it’s not."
   -- https://theoutline.com/post/4653/the-internet-s-collective-memory-is-unstable-as-hell?zd=1&zi=jmxeyyus


For now, some links:

 * The internet’s collective memory has no backup
   The Wayback Machine depends on good will and ignorance.
     https://theoutline.com/post/4653/the-internet-s-collective-memory-is-unstable-as-hell?zd=1&zi=jmxeyyus
     [23 may 2018]
     Was not able to archive this at wayback machine,
       tried twice, once through firefox button, once directly.
       it seemed like it was archiving, then returned a generic
       not found message, with a malformed url for the 
       usual returned link (no slash after 'web')
       when i added the slash, it returned the message again,
       with url malformed again.
       [10 jul 2019]

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  * mass_archive
      A basic Python tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once.
       uses three different (mostly free) archiving services: 
         The Wayback Machine, Archive.is, Perma.cc
         https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive

  * Motherboard Made a Tool That Archives Websites on Demand
      mass_archive, a Python script, will push a webpage or URL to
      multiple archive services at once, hopefully making online
      journalism or research a bit more efficient.
      https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7mkb/mass-archive-tool-python-wayback-machine-perma-achiveis
      1 may 2018

  

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