Those archival services have rescued so much knowledge, so much information and conversations that would have been gone into oblivion without them.
Also, different archival services have distinctions:
The Wayback Machine captures pages in a modular way so that the original page source codes (including separately saved images, CSS and JS) are retrievable. It also supports all file types.
Archive.Today uses a memento method, where it first loads the contents and then freezes the content. It supports extended scrolling on many pages and also allows archival of some pages that are excluded (blacklisted) from the Wayback Machine, such as Quora.
Since November 29th 2019, due to the upgrade from PhantomJS to Chromium engine, it also supports progressive web applications such as Dailymotion and Instagram.
Those archival services have rescued so much knowledge, so much information and conversations that would have been gone into oblivion without them.
Also, different archival services have distinctions:
The Wayback Machine captures pages in a modular way so that the original page source codes (including separately saved images, CSS and JS) are retrievable. It also supports all file types.
Archive.Today uses a *memento* method, where it first loads the contents and then *freezes* the content. It supports extended scrolling on many pages and also allows archival of some pages that are excluded (blacklisted) from the Wayback Machine, such as Quora.
Since November 29th 2019, due to the upgrade from PhantomJS to Chromium engine, it also supports progressive web applications such as Dailymotion and Instagram.
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