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I've never taken the internet for granted — have scraped anything and everything I have found interesting. I suggest everyone do the same.

(As a bonus, you don't even need internet for the content you have backed up.)

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And one nice tool for scraping archives for yourself is https://archivebox.io/

a nice frontend by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nikisweeting

I've been using History Book app[1] (only on Apple ecosystem). The search is starting to slow down at 25k pages, hoping it can hold up.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/history-book-browse-search/id1...

I.e. where one would make a bookmark, you make a copy? That's interesting. Videos and all?

You save the actual file, not a bookmark. That also means you have the data always available, independent of whether or not you have internet access.

And you save it in in a tree-structured set of folders.

Like (say): Motor_vehicles -> ICE -> cars -> Mercedes_Benz -> C-Class -> Coupe -> 2002_W203

Videos, Music, photos, ebooks, etc,etc. They all can go on a "write-once, keep forever" archive-disk, that is backed-up daily using something like 'rsync' that only needs to track the changes in the archived materials.

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