LOL OSU*
Man, I’ve missed college football. Two top ten teams knocked off by unranked opponents, one of which had a double digit losing streak.
Yeesh, Miami’s WR room is deeeeeep. True freshman Vance Spafford with an absolutely absurd TD catch while getting mugged by two defenders. Guy is probably 8th on the depth chart.
I pay ESPN for their streaming service. Just now getting a chance to watch the Miami game and am trying to catch up, but they have unskippable 3 minute ad breaks at every single opportunity. Such bullshit. I think I’m just going to cancel and stream from sketchy sources instead.
Hoo-boy, just seeing the Automattic drama. Not surprised…
My XTEINK X4 got me reading again. My new X4 Pro arrived last week. Great little device, and the addition of a front light and touch screen make it nearly perfect. Those pogo pins, tho…
Finished my re-read of Mistborn era one earlier this week. I had forgotten just how satisfying the ending is. It’s equal parts emotional, beautiful, and surprising. Everything fits together neatly and you’re left with a deep mythology of gods, forces in opposition, and harmony. 🤘🔥
Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up.
For example if you try looking up a page in the Internet Archive and it’s not there.
Or if you find an “interesting” page, and want to blog it later, you may want to save a copy of it in the Internet Archive as you are seeing it today, because when you look later it may have changed (or gone away).
I used to do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/save/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to save in the archive.
Again this is not really a “search engine”, however Firefox’s search engine shortcuts simplifies this greatly (less typing).
Here’s how to create a save shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
4. enter "Internet Archive Save" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
5. enter "https://web.archive.org/save/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
6. enter "ias" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
When viewing a page that I want to save in the Internet Archive:
1. copy its link
2. activate the browser address bar (cmd-L does this in Firefox and Safari)
3. type "ias " (without the quotes)
4. paste the link I had copied earlier, and press return
Wait a few seconds (could take up to a few minutes) and the Internet Archive should save the page and show you the saved version.
If it fails for any reason (happens sometimes), likes takes a while and then displays something like:
"Sorry / Job failed"
You can click the "Return to Save Page Now" link on the page, and try pasting the link one more time into the text input box and pressing return.
If it says something like
"The target server blocks access to [URL]. (HTTP status=403)"
(literally happened to me today)
or some other HTTP status error code (5xx or 4xx), then you can try emailing the IT staff of the site you were trying to archive by emailing "webmaster@" the domain of that URL and perhaps CC: help@ that domain.
E.g. if the URL was https://example.com/some-path then you would email "webmaster@example.com, help@example.com".
With something like:
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Dear [Domain Name] Webmaster,
Could you check your server configuration and explicitly allow the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to make historical archive copies of your pages?
This is important for the history of the open web, and greatly helps journalists, bloggers, and historians.
Please allow their User Agent: "archive.org_bot" to crawl and archive your site. More info on their "archive.org_bot" here: https://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot
Thank you for your consideration!
[sign your name]
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Replace the two [ bracket phrases ] the domain name of the link you were trying to archive and your name respectively.
Good luck and happy internet archiving!
Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/249/t1/internet-archive-wayback-machine-search-shortcut
This is my sixth #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and fourth useful web tip for September.
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #save #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #archive #archives #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #archiveTip
Hey San Diego, come out to a Mutual Aid Comedy Show on September 19th! All proceeds benefit We All We Got SD.
Lineup: Shannon Hardy, Geoff Grooms, Max Kerwien, Pedro Martinez, Lauren Gural.
Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives webpages (that allow it) and quite often you can lookup broken links in the archive.
I often do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/web/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to lookup, because I know some of the Internet Archive’s URL patterns.
Though it’s not really a “search engine”, I realized I could use the search engine shortcuts feature of Firefox to simplify this greatly.
Here’s how to create a search shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
4. enter "Internet Archive" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
5. enter "https://web.archive.org/web/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
6. enter "ia" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
Now if a link I follow fails to load (404) or is otherwise broken, I can:
1. copy that link (I may have to go back to the previous page and right-click choose "Copy Link")
2. activate the browser address bar (cmd-L does this in Firefox and Safari)
3. type "ia " (without the quotes)
4. paste the link I had copied earlier, and press return
Presto, an Internet Archive result for that link.
If you’re a frequent user of the Wayback Machine, hopefully this will save you some time.
And if not, try it anyway for the next time you click on a link and it seems broken.
This is my fifth #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and third useful web tip for September.
#InternArchive #WaybackMachine #search #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #searchEngine #archive #archives #PageNotFound #404 #404Error #Error404 #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #searchTip
Kimi Antonelli is absolutely incredible. One of the best drives I’ve ever seen. #F1
So I think Miami is going to be good at football this year.
Miami better beat Stanford by six scores to redeem week one…
Bring back Paul Johnson, you cowards.