Previous videos, we took a look at the Internet Archive and what an amazing tool it is.
Lets us go back and unarchive videos or posts or web pages may have been deleted.
Now the last thing you want to do is have an investigation.
You try to go back to the original source, say that you want to show the original source of the video
of this YouTube video, and you go back and it's gone.
Even though you saved the video, which is fantastic.
And you really should save those media files for whatever reason you may need to or want to save that
original preserve that original web page.
And of course, the Internet Archive is a great tool for that.
However, it's only great if it actually saves it now instead of relying on chance that it actually
archives that page, you want to actually go ahead and initiate that archive yourself.
So this is a YouTube video of mine that I deleted.
And if we go back to the Internet Archive, I'm going to show you a different example because this does
take a little time.
I'll go over that in a moment.
So say this video is something that we want to save here, this Call of Duty Modern Warfare video.
Now, if I go to archive.org, we see the Wayback Machine.
I'm going to paste that URL in here.
I'm going to enter.
And it's going to say, hey, this is not archived.
So we can do is we can click this button, save this URL to the Wayback Machine.
I can click this and we can either have this enable or disable.
Doesn't really matter.
I'm going to just disable it.
I'm going to do save Page.
Okay.
And it's going to start archiving this video onto their servers.
So we could always go back and take a look at that video.
Now, don't expect this to index right away.
It for the last one I did.
It took actually a couple days for the video to actually appear.
You can see the Web page within, say, an hour or two.
However, the video won't play until later.
It's still indexing it.
So here's that video that I deleted and I archived it before to kind of show you this.
So here we have web archive.
Web.archive.org rather forward slash web forward slash, and then this number here and then the URL.
So here it is, August 19th, 2021 that I deleted.
I'm going to click play.
I offline pilot and we can see the video playing here.
And if you want to reference it, the enemy you for right here n m i you for same video, but now we
can see it's archived in the wayback machine.
And of course.
Again, if you need to want to save the original page, make sure that you go to Wayback Machine, grab
that URL, paste it in there and save it yourself.
It's going to save you a lot of headache and it's going to do you a lot of good.
And again, this was manually archiving web pages with the Wayback Machine.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.