Practical articles for anyone who has to show what a web page said, and when: lawyers, compliance teams, researchers and journalists. How pages disappear, what makes a capture hold up, and how to keep one.
The Wayback Machine is often the only record of what a site used to say. Courts treat it with more caution than many people expect. What a Wayback capture shows, where it falls short, and when you need your own copy.
6 min readA screenshot shows what a page looked like, but not where it came from, when, or that nobody touched it since. What a capture needs to record to hold up when someone disputes it, and a checklist for doing it properly.
8 min readA quarter of the web pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 are gone, and half the links in US Supreme Court opinions no longer show what they cited. The research on link rot and content drift, and what it means for anything you cite.
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