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Archives
Archiving is an important concept. You want to archive everything you can for future generations. Archiving is an important concept that has been in existence since the time of the ancients.
4chan Archives
Currently, the only archiver servicing /g/ - Technology is DesuArchive, located at https://desuarchive.org/g/.
Their records go back as far as February 8th, 2010, with full images being available from mid-2012 and onward.
Archives for other boards include: DesuArchive, Archived.Moe and Archive of Sins (NSFW boards including /t/).
This site (InstallGentoo) formerly had an archive for 4chan but this service has since shut down.
A list of archives is available at ArchiveTeam wiki and Bibliotheca Anonoma. Note not all archives are complete or have a search function enabled.
8chan Archives
8chan has a beta archiving system. To access, simply add /archive to the end of the board URL. An example: https://8ch.net/pol/archive/index.html
General Archives
- Archive.is - A Static Web Archiver. Has multiple domains including archive.today, archive.li, archive.io, archive.vn, archive.ph and so-on. Doesn't give into censorship demands. Only deletes porn sites, CSAM sites, 404s and DMCA'd sites.
- PreserveTube - An archive of YouTube content. Great for viewing that was either deleted by channel or YouTube.
- Ghostarchive - Relatively new web archiving tool. Much better at saving gifs, some videos, and page format than archive.today.
- The Internet Archive - All Purpose Digital Archive, with the goal of becoming a digital Library of Alexandria.
- The Wayback Machine - A service of the Internet Archive, archiving websites. Has given into internet censorship and put misinformation labels on sites.
- The Archive Team - A team of volunteers who task themselves with archiving soon-to-be-terminated web services
- Archiveteam Wiki - Useful wiki page made by the Archive Team.
- Sacred Texts - An archive of sacred and holy texts
- Project Gutenberg - Archiving Public-Domain books since 1980
- TextFiles - An archive of text from the BBS era.
- Megalodon | ウェブ魚拓 - Japanese archiving site.
- Perma.cc - Solution created by academia, court system, and government in response to link rot.