This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving the internet through the Wayback Machine, which allows users to see how websites looked in the past.

Here at Snopes, archiving web links is key to our fact-checking practice. And thanks to numerous archival resources on the internet, that practice has become easier than ever. Keeping records on the ...

Web archiving encompasses the systematic capture, preservation and provision of access to digital content that would otherwise be ephemeral. Techniques range from large-scale automated crawls that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Last fall I was invited to speak at an event examining the state of web ...

WARCs? WORMs? Is this a lost installment of the Lord of the Rings? Unfortunately, no. Rather, WARC and WORM are abbreviations that you should be familiar with if you’re maintaining digital archives ...

If you’re a regular reader of Hanzo, we’ve probably already convinced you that you need to be archiving any social media profiles that your organization maintains, along with your website. Chances are ...

Saving the pages from websites as they change over time for historical purposes. Using crawlers similar to the ones search engines routinely deploy, there are services that archive the pages of a ...

People are warned that what they post on the internet will live forever. But that’s not really the case. This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving ...