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2026-10-29 16:29:01

misty@digipres.club

I talk to people about web archiving a lot, and it feels like so many people think it’s not something *they* can do - they just have to wait and hope someone else saves a site for them. But *you* can save web history too! Here’s how! https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/

#digipres

2026-10-29 16:29:30

JennyFluff :heart_trans: 💾

JennyFluff@chitter.xyz

@misty #digipres

2026-10-29 16:30:47

Misty

misty@digipres.club

Screenshot of an early web 2.0-style website embedded into a blog post.

Look, that’s an entire archived website embedded right into this blog post. And I did it all with free and dead easy open source tools! If you’ve got any websites or social media posts you care about, please consider going out there and archiving it yourself while you still can.

2026-10-29 16:40:47

Myno :myno_sit:

mynotaurus@floofy.tech

@misty ohh zhis is so cool. a little website in a browser in a website in a browser

2026-10-29 16:51:22

dpflug

dpflug@hachyderm.io

@misty
Thank you for the reminder to refresh my copy of https://www.kiteplans.org/

2026-10-29 16:52:47

Natalie 🪗

natalie@prismst.one

@misty I stumbled into a rare opportunity a few years ago where I was not only able to resurrect a dead site, but also restore it to its original domain, so all old dead links got fixed!

2026-10-29 17:06:13

the Hearth :therian:

Hearth@plush.city

@misty The archive.page browser extension you mention in this looks like the perfect tool for us to use, except that we refuse to ever use a chromium-based browser (which includes the embedded browser in its desktop program, which i don't think would really be viable for us anyway as it would add too many extra steps to the process)

Are you aware of any equivalents for firefox-based browsers, or whether the extension you linked has any plans to make a firefox version?
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2026-10-29 17:32:58

Stooryduster

stooryduster@mastodon.scot

@misty I wanted to do this - but the site was badly built - pre mobile devices - fixed sizes. It disappeared. Found the remnants of it on Internet archive. So I rebuilt it and hosted it. HTML and gifs. That cartoonist was an inspiration to me in my formative years. I will look at these tools.
https://stooryduster.co.uk/lobey-dosser/index.htm

2026-10-29 17:57:59

Josh Justice

CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space

@misty i’m curious if you have an opinion about ArchiveBox. It’s the archiving tool I started using recently, specifically to make more durable backups of my Wallabag saves. It’s been a bit processor intensive on my home server tho

2026-10-29 18:24:48

Marin T. Kael

marintkael@mastodon.social

@misty Save Page Now on the Wayback Machine is the lowest bar and still the one most people have never heard of. Paste a URL, wait a minute, and there is a dated copy anyone can cite.

2026-10-29 18:54:44

Keynotes

keynotes@mastodon.social

@misty thanks!