web-archiving

Brief usage notes on ArchiveBox and wget

I say I’m an archivist but I’ve been rather blasé about archiving my own web presence. I can’t find an archive of my GeoCities site and the Wayback Machine only has a single capture from my university undergraduate page (I had already graduated a couple of years before that). But I started collecting my own domains around the early 2000s and the Wayback Machine is a reminder of the many iterations of my personal website,1 the different hand-coded templates, CMSes, and static site generators that I used, and all the text that I published and abandoned over the years. ...