Archiving

This page is a gem.

This article is meant to be about how an average 'teen can archive gems because nothing on the internet is permanent!

Local archiving

Truly nothing on the internet is permanent, not even archive sites. That's why it's important to save stuff (e.g. images, videos, and even entire webpages) to your local hard drive and to preferably make backups. You can use special software for this part.

Ctrl+S on your browser - Ugly
Singlefile extension (Chrome/Firefox) - Good overall. Saves the page as you see it in one .html file. Saves full images if you open them.
Another option: >he doesn't have a custom-programmed live sharty-compatible vichan archiver >shiggy saving individual threads
yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork that allows you to save audio and video from YouTube and many other sites.
ArchiveBox allows you to run your own website archiver locally (can also apparently import from browser bookmarks or history).
Learn how to scrape websites with Python or whatever you selfish little fuck.

Archive sites

DO NOT exclusively use archive.org to save webpages. Uploading files there seems to be okay THOUGH. Use archive.ph for saving pages instead

https://web.archive.org/save
https://archive.today
https://ghostarchive.org (tranny archive)

Archive.today/Archive.ph

If you're fed up with the snail speed of the Internet Archive, or wary of using it since 4chan was blacklisted on it^[1] then you WILL opt for Archive.today.

Simple archive

To do a simple archive, simply paste the thread link into the field that reads "My url is alive and I want to archive its content" and then press the button that says "save". This alone is okay for things like history documentation, especially if a thread is looooong (like this one).

Archiving media

If you HATE being stuck with thumbnails, then you can open each original image as it appears in the thread in a new tab and archive each individual link it the same manner you would a thread. You can attempt to archive videos in the same way, but they will NOT embed on Archive.today and are NOT downloadable from the archive.