exploring something cool 11-05-26

If you love a website, back it up By the way, for disclosure: the tools I’m going to mention in this blog post are made by the company I work for, but that’s not because they’ll pay my salary (most of them are free!). I just happen to think these are the best tools there are for personal web archiving. 😎 Note: I’ve started exploring the tools mentioned in the blog post. The free tools (Options 1 & 2) require manually browsing the site to be archived, and they both do the job. Option 3, which is more automated, involves a free, 7-day trial that turns into a monthly subscription at a price far too high for my blood, so I won't be exploring that option (I’m not fond of the subscription model for software, especially at such a high monthly cost). See "The Tools" section of this post below for more details. All of the tools I’ll be showing off in this post use standard web archiving formats like WARC. You don’t have to worry about any of the technical details, but I’m telling you that…

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