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Linking the Wayback Machine

2025-11-12 22:56:38.044574+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Damn, one of the things that got lost in my accidental rm -rf was my "link to archive.org" option at the top of entry pages, that let you toggle on a little link to the Wayback Machine after external links.

I've been pondering how I feel about that, and about what it means to be continuously publishing on the web for ... egads, 28+ years now, and what parts of the archive have any sort of general value and what don't.

And how I feel about tools like archive.ph/is or 12ft.io or all of those other paywall circumvention things, and how I feel about linking to resources that I have a subscription to (I used to link to a lot of WaPo stuff, 'til I dropped that, I currently have a Wired subscription along with some local papers that I don't generally link to here).

Anyway, the reader who pushed me to have the little Wayback Machine toggle forwarded along Preserving the Web: How Drupal’s Wayback Filter Uses the Internet Archive to Mend Broken Links goes into a lot of these issues.

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