Screenshot from Archive.org.
IT'S GOOD TO KNOW that the Internet Archive harvests more than simple text. I've used it to resurrect images and audio clips from sites long discontinued.
Several voices I used to enjoy on Audioboo have closed their accounts but in many cases, their digital artifacts surface through the Wayback Machine. It's like hearing a blast from the past and rather amazing because their audio clips have been saved from Amazon's S3 servers even though their originators totally deleted their accounts on Audioboo. I get the same result from sites that depended upon photographs, images or maps presented from other sites.
As time goes forward, I hope that the iFrames and JQuery content from sites I use every week also get the same archival treatment.
I often reflect on my need to create stronger archives by following a routine that involves Markdown inside Scrivener, Evernote and pushing my audio clips into my Crashplan. And so I start 2014 with the same theme but this year I'm also auditing my content, watching related items appear in my personal archives and setting aside time to scrape whole websites.
