Rune Dance Two

@sirsean

#WBM is for #WaybackMachine.

Some sites exist that archive web pages on the web so you can prove to someone something was written on a web page.

Take for example the archived version of my profile page at the Lemmy site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230611211746/https://sh.itjust.works/u/RuneIsAnOkDancer

My profile page is archived/saved. Archived means it is saved by a special kind of website that saves pages from other websites so that I/you/others can prove that something was written at a certain point in time.

@RuneIsAnOkDancer - sh.itjust.works

Jun 11, 2023 at 11:35pmWeb
Show threadRune Dance TwoJun 11, 2023

@sirsean web.archive.org is a popular site where you can save various webpages on the web...if you want to quote them.

You know sometimes you follow some link and you realize there is no content and you get a warning like "404, no content here" or something else.

If someone had archived what a website had written before they deleted it you can find old content from our past...sort of like "Archaeology" but not really 🙂