The Wayback Machine Just Got Way Better "The nicest new feature, though, is the new Save Page Now tool. On the Wayback Machine page, just enter a page you want to save in the Save Page box in the bottom right corner, and it’ll generate a current snapshot of that page and give you a link to reference. That new feature is immediately the best way to cite pages in documents and perhaps Wikipedia, since you can guarantee that the link won’t rot. It’s something the Supreme Court should immediately love, since they’ve found that a staggering 49% of the links in cases are now dead."
"Webpages disappear at an alarming rate, but it’s not the only media that’s fleeting. TV shows might hang around on DVD and Netflix for a while, but imagine trying to find what your local TV news said on a specific date? Archiving everything that’s ever broadcasted on TV seems far too lofty a task, but the Internet Archive is currently archiving everything from 23 major American TV news networks at their TV News site. It was started during the last US election to make it easier to quote what was said on the news, and has continued to index the full text of everything broadcasted on the stations they’re caching. You can search what’s being said, see the top topics right now, watch short clips where the text was said, and borrow full DVDs from the library for research. It’s the most incredible thing to ever happen to TV news."
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