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I know this is a pretty smart crowd over here, but I didn't know this until just recently, so I'm sharing it here with you:

If you come across a gem of a website that you fear might get taken down soon, yes, go ahead and archive it to archive.org or the waybackmachine. But I found something else you can do too. Scroll all the way from top to the bottom of the website to make sure that everything gets uploaded and refreshed, then right-click on the page and click print (or just hit print screen on your keyboard). Know you're given the option to save as a pdf. Now you've got your own personal backup of that webpage that you can print out on paper at anytime you want or copy onto a thumb drive for easy access and portability. Even though archive.org is supposed to be like a digital ark or sanctuary for wayward webpages, you're still uploading that webpage to someones very hackable server farm somewhere. It's a lot more difficult for them to come thru a backdoor to your computer (or your house lol) and error 404 your thumb drive or your physical print out. I think we should all start adopting this practice in retrospect and from here on out. Internet Download Manager is also a supremely amazing program to have installed, it allows you to very easily download any video, music file, pdf, or anything from any website, in just 1 click. I've been using it for years to download every video I ever watch.

I know this is a pretty smart crowd over here, but I didn't know this until just recently, so I'm sharing it here with you: If you come across a gem of a website that you fear might get taken down soon, yes, go ahead and archive it to archive.org or the waybackmachine. But I found something else you can do too. Scroll all the way from top to the bottom of the website to make sure that everything gets uploaded and refreshed, then right-click on the page and click print (or just hit print screen on your keyboard). Know you're given the option to save as a pdf. Now you've got your own personal backup of that webpage that you can print out on paper at anytime you want or copy onto a thumb drive for easy access and portability. Even though archive.org is supposed to be like a digital ark or sanctuary for wayward webpages, you're still uploading that webpage to someones very hackable server farm somewhere. It's a lot more difficult for them to come thru a backdoor to your computer (or your house lol) and error 404 your thumb drive or your physical print out. I think we should all start adopting this practice in retrospect and from here on out. Internet Download Manager is also a supremely amazing program to have installed, it allows you to very easily download any video, music file, pdf, or anything from any website, in just 1 click. I've been using it for years to download every video I ever watch.

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If you don't know about it already, there's few chrome/firefox/edge extensions you can install and use to archive a page in just one click. The 2 I use are called "Wayback Machine" and "Save to the Wayback Machine," and of the two, I find the later to be more helpful and quicker.

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Thank you for noting that also. I do already use extensions for both archive.org and archive.today for archiving pages and they are also very helpful for saving a few seconds and speeding up archiving.

For several weeks now archive.today switched to wanting me to do a captcha every single time I try to archive a page instead of only giving me that check if I quickly tried to archive 4 or more pages at the same time. I don't use them at all anymore because of that, but I do check now and then to see if they're still doing that so I know if I can start using it again or not.