I downloaded a website

Misty wrote recently about how to archive websites locally on your own computer. I've never done this before! I decided to give it a shot!! I downloaded the app she mentioned in her post, Archive Webpage, and used it to archive my own website. It's a manual process - you start a session, click through all the stuff you want to archive by hand, then stop the session. I found this kind of contemplative. (I've yet to try out the crawler she mentioned.) I then saved the archive to my NAS and opened it up. It works!! I can see my website as if I were browsing it normally. There are plenty of outgoing links that do not work - if it's not in the archive, it won't browse there on the live web - but it got everything I viewed. Nice!!!! I did try archiving a bunch of the outgoing links, though, so it did archive whole snapshots of various sites I actually clicked through to. This ended up making the archive Pretty Large. It's over 300 MB even though my site is not particularly big. I've decided…

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