Posted on 06/23/2020 8:39:28 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
If you link directly to the current time-instance of an article or an image, the link could be pulled tomorrow, and your article's usefulness would be curtailed due to broken links and images.
Archive.org is usually thought of as a location for books that can't be found anywhere. (Some may be there that aren't in the Library of Congress.)
But there's another service there, "The Internet Archive WAYBACK MACHINE", an archive of hundreds of billions of page views (provided they weren't blocked from robot scanning.)
If you can see an article, it may have already been scanned, simply enter the article web-address/url (without the preceding "http://.www") in the address window. If it has already been scanned, go into the most recent year, month, day and time, click the highlighted link, then use THAT web address for your link. (In Firefox, you can right-click to evoke the archived image in Wayback.)
That way, when & if a web page is pulled, it will still show in your article.
The internet is extensive in space but not in time.
This is a WONDERFUL tool, unknown to many (or at least, forgotten). The site has pulled a rabbit out of the hat
a number of times, personally speaking.
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