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I made a browser extension [1] that automatically archives bookmarks to archive.is or (currently Chromium only) locally as MHTML files. [1]: https://github.com
by rahiel 9y ago
I made a browser extension [1] that automatically archives bookmarks to archive.is or (currently Chromium only) locally as MHTML files.
[1]: https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror
- pdfernhout 9y agoCool, Rahiel! Thanks for doing this. Here is a related idea I proposed a couple years ago to a Knight News Challenge on Libraries: https://web.archive.org/web/20161104175911/https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/how-might-libraries-serve-21st-century-information-needs/submissions/libraries-as-distributed-digital-knowledge-repositories https://web.archive.org/web/20161104175911/https://www.newsc... "Create a browser addon so when people post to the web they can send a copy for storage and hosting by a network of local libraries. ... While the Internet Archive is backing up some of the internet, it is another single point of failure. We propose developing data standards, software applications, coordination protocols. and hardware specifications so every local library in the world can participate in backing up part of the internet. ..." Sad that the Knight News Foundation has changed their software and so all the old Knight News contributions are no longer available. It's an example of the very thing that contribution was about -- the need for distributed backups. Glad that info is still findable in archive.org -- until perhaps the Knight News Foundation puts up a broad robots.txt and makes it all inaccessible. Thanks again for creating a great plugin!
- WhiteOwlLion 9y agoWhat about IPFS for storing cached pages?
- pdfernhout 9y agoGreat idea --thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System