Internet Archive Scholar
Some days, nearly half the links I click are dead so I've found myself relying on the waybackmachine more and more over the past few months. It's really shocking just how fast digital obsolescence reared its ugly head. Of course angelcites etc. were a clear early blow, but nowadays...<p>I've started saving the html (including the css seems like too much overhead, and often it's incomplete or relies on downloads still - and screenshots are not searchable) of every interesting article I find online, downloading quite a few videos too with yt-dlp. I'd long copypasted all interesting comments into a txt file, but now it seems like data hoarding's the way to go - at least in moderation, focusing on things I'll actually refer back to.<p>I remember 15 years ago, discovering pdf dumps on random sites like a kid in a candy store. Perhaps it'll be like that again, with people presenting museums of their favorite old pages.