seen on HN: https://kage.tamnd.com/
kage renders every page in headless Chrome, snapshots the final DOM, removes every script and event handler, and downloads and rewrites the CSS, images, and fonts.

saves in ZIM Format, in the comments the author says it will support WARC too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529990

#webarchiving

🗃️ wabarc/wayback

Archives web pages via CLI or chat bots (Telegram, Discord, Matrix, etc.) to Internet Archive, IPFS, archive.today and more, with Tor support and offline storage options

⭐ Stars: 2198
📅 Last Update: Jun 08, 2026

https://github.com/wabarc/wayback

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #webarchiving #cli

I just wanted to share a (not so late) night rant with you.
In three days, the Italian web portal Libero.it is going to shut down thousands of early blogs that were originally created through the platform ItaliaOnline and later rebranded as Digilander.
I think this is a paradigmatic case of what we are going to experience more and more often in the near future. 1/

#digitaloblivion #webarchiving #Digilander #Italianwebhistory
#lostinternet #earlyblogs

Können wir das Alter von Webseiten abschätzen, wenn uns nur ein Crawl zur Verfügung steht?

Diese Frage hat Ira Kokoshko und Robert Jäschke beschäftigt – und sie haben dazu den Ancient GeoCities Datensatz auf der Web Science 2026 in Braunschweig vorgestellt. Wie gut ein LLM bei der Schätzung des Alters von Webseiten performt, könnt ihr im Paper nachlesen:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3795766.3799783

#GeoCities #WebScience #WebArchiving

I was the first person to archive a webpage from Internet Archive Europe on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

LoL

#InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #WaybackMachine #archive #archiving #WebArchiving #WebPreservation #inception

“People aren’t sure what’s true, and what libraries are here for is to help with that.”

Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive, discusses the future of the #WaybackMachine in ABC Radio National (🇦🇺 Australia)’s “Wayback Machine: The internet’s archive in peril,” a look at how media companies are restricting the preservation of the web itself.

🎧 Listen ⤵️
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/sundayextra/wayback-machine/106604988

#InternetHistory #WebArchiving @abcaustraliarss @brewsterkahle

NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

RE: https://fedihum.org/@aiucd/116600978409273225

#webarchiving