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one day this will be as famous as youtube-dl
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox
This is great, thank you!
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I remember that button, too, but I think it had more to do with connection charges than caching. In Netscape days, many people would have to pay by the minute to be connected to the internet. In those days, web pages generally contained far more information than they do now, and were less interactive. So you'd connect, load the content you wanted to see, disconnect, and then just sit there and read it for free, inste…
Back in the nineties the web was fairly new and people still used a thing called usenet quite a bit. You interacted with it kind of like email (Google groups is actually the final vestiges of it) - and the go offline button would just download all your emails and newsgroups and you got peruse them offline at your pleasure. It might seem strange also that back in those days you downloaded your emails from a server usi…
News servers don't use POP3. They serve articles over NNTP.
Re: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back in the nineties the web was fairly new and people still used a thing called usenet quite a bit. You interacted with it kind of like email (Google groups is actually the final vestiges of it) - and the go offline button would just download all your emails and newsgroups and you got peruse them offline at your pleasure. It might seem strange also that back in those days you downloaded your emails from a server usi…
News servers don't use POP3. They serve articles over NNTP.
> back in those days you downloaded your emails from a server using POP3
I would have said UUCP for news but that's showing my age.
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#164It looks like something I'd appreciate! I make a significant effort to archive things that I think I'll need. Unfortunately it didn't work when I just tried installing it now (macOS 10.13.6, node v14.8.0). MacBook-Pro:Desktop peter$ npx archivist1 npx: installed 79 in 8.282s Preferences file does not exist. Creating one... Args usage: Updating base path from undefined to /Users/peter... Archive directory (/Users/pete…
Damn I got that issue before...Just now reported on the repo. I feel really sorry for you and all the people who haven't had the good experience of using this. I will take a look.
This issue means that we couldn't connect to chrome debugging port. Maybe we couldn't open chrome, maybe because we couldn't shut the existing chrome.
To possible remedy, and diagnose more, try
$ export DEBUG_22120=BLEHMEHEKTAA
$ npx archivist1@latestRe: Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history
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Thank YOU! And I want to ass that a Chrome extension is not a very internet friendly choice. Firefox needs all the love it can get these days. :)
> Firefox needs all the love it can get these days. But can we count on Firefox to stay relevant even if Mozilla fired most of the dev team?
It's comments like this that will lead to folks not building for Firefox, therefore no one wanting to use it because there are things not built for it
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#166Given the hard 'no' in the FAQ, does anyone know about a similar project for Firefox?
Like the title of the github repo suggests ArchiveBox can be used. You have to manually import your browsing history though.... In theory you could also use yacy... But that is intended as search engine and not as archive. Edit: while looking into it I found alternatives [2] and Memex [3] seems to be interesting. Edit2: I remember 2 Show HNs. One recorded your entire desktop and made it searchable. Can't remember wha…
Any chance you’re thinking of APSE? I submitted a Show HN a while back.