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Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

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Re: Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

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Why is that the most ethical thing to do? As a motivating example, I wrote some stuff on my MySpace page as a teenager that I'm very glad is no longer available. They were published as "freely accessible" and indeed, I wanted people to see it. But when I read it back 15 years later, I was more than a little embarrassed about it, and I deleted it - despite it also having comments from my friends at the time, or being…

I another 15 or 20 years you might want to see the content again. I hope you saved it somewhere.

I might, but I might want to see a whole lot of other things from my past, too.

Forgetting is part of living, y'know?

Re: Why I link to Wayback Machine instead of original web content

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Wayback machine converts all links on a page to wayback links so you can navigate a dead site normally.

Well that's a bummer. Any way to defeat it?

If you're viewing a capture of a site, there's always a banner at the top of the page showing the original URL and when the page was captured, along with controls to view other snapshots. I do wish the banner had a "open actual site" button but it's pretty easy to copy the URL from the text box and paste it into your browser's location bar.
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