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fromNieman Lab
2 days ago

The Wayback Machine's snapshots of news homepages plummet after a "breakdown" in archiving projects

The Kyiv Post, one of Ukraine's leading English-language news outlets, covered the story, but no public record of its homepage exists in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for that day. A homepage snapshot - a viewable version of a page captured by the Wayback Machine's crawlers - does not appear until September 8, more than 24 hours after the attack.
World news
Web development
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it

TypePad, the hosted blogging service created by Six Apart, has been discontinued and its content risks being lost except via archives like the Wayback Machine.
Privacy professionals
fromNieman Lab
2 months ago

It just got easier to make an archival copy of that website you're digging into

Reddit has blocked the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine from archiving its content, raising concerns over link rot and the availability of web history.
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