I think it’s like backups—you don’t appreciate the need until it’s gone, and then it’s too late. And to be fair, I don’t think I would get much value out of an archive of my web browsing history from age 10-16, say.
That would already be covered by my own reading of it, my browser history being the main source of URLs for archiver-bot.
You’re making a permanent backup of everything you ever read on the internet? That’s… that’s… well I suppose data storage is cheap these days. It makes perfect sense. Reading your scripting instructions now.
Not everything; I filter out things I am sure I won’t want in the future and things I strongly expect to be available & which would take up a lot of space (Wikipedia in particular), and the bot is rate-limited by the IA/WebCite submissions. Increasingly more stuff is difficult to archive as sites load stuff via JS. But much of what I read, yes.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality?
That would already be covered by my own reading of it, my browser history being the main source of URLs for archiver-bot.
I can’t believe I haven’t used archiver-bots for my browsing experience until now.
I think it’s like backups—you don’t appreciate the need until it’s gone, and then it’s too late. And to be fair, I don’t think I would get much value out of an archive of my web browsing history from age 10-16, say.
Vintage porn can be sold at a reasonable markup to the right audience, can’t it?
You’re making a permanent backup of everything you ever read on the internet? That’s… that’s… well I suppose data storage is cheap these days. It makes perfect sense. Reading your scripting instructions now.
Not everything; I filter out things I am sure I won’t want in the future and things I strongly expect to be available & which would take up a lot of space (Wikipedia in particular), and the bot is rate-limited by the IA/WebCite submissions. Increasingly more stuff is difficult to archive as sites load stuff via JS. But much of what I read, yes.