The Mac Emacs that I use is XEmacs with Andrew Choi's patches, which were never accepted for some reason. I've been using this version since 2005... but I stopped being able to compile it in 2008. It last built successfully on MacOS 10.5, I guess?
This is probably going to cause me a lot of swearing some time next year.
I wrote this thing to replace all the links in an HTML document with Wayback Machine links. It looks at the file's date and tries to find contemporaneous archives.I think I'll also do that with links in every blog post that is more than, say, 5 years old. Opinions differ widely on what the half-life of a link is, but it is Not Long because Everything is Terrible.
It would be nice if there was an easy way to detect whether a site is still really there, and only replace it with an archive link if not, but that's basically impossible to automate since so many sites turn into domain-parking spam pages.
By the way, there are many ways to tell the Archive to save a page immediately. The easiest way to script that is to just load
The Archive is a critical piece of infrastructure of both the Internet, and increasingly, our society. Give them money.
