Now the Wayback Machine is a rusty old truck, Stuck in the dunes, down on its luck. The pixels have faded to grains of the sand, Slipping like hourglasses through the hand.
The Archive cannot be everywhere at once. But millions of internet users can. Browser extensions like (by the Archive itself) and ArchiveBox allow individuals to save pages on demand. If you see something important—a news article, a government document, a friend’s blog—save it immediately. Do not assume the crawler will find it. parched internet archive