Use the Wayback Machine to Keep Your Favorite Sites Forever

Websites are constantly changing, with stories and even new layouts making it difficult to find what you’ve read or seen years ago. If you write online on a third-party site, whatever they do could spell the end of your online job. In today’s political climate, it is more important than ever to keep a record of political promises or mistakes. Unless you’re using the Wayback Machine Archive.org to dig (or save) old pages, tweets about your former employer, or images, you should get used to it.

According to Ren La Forma and Kristen Hare of Poynter , it’s easy to archive whatever page you’re on with a bookmarklet. As journalists, they use the site to preserve relevant stories that may be useful for revisiting in the future.

Archiving your site with the Wayback Machine ensures that they (or anyone else) can view the content in its original form before anything is edited or removed.

If you’re a Chrome user , the Wayback Machine Chrome extension is ideal for archiving your current pages or viewing the most recent or oldest archived version.

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