Just saved my work by bookmarking a wayback machine link

I had a client's entire site go down last Tuesday and I panicked hard. But I remembered I had a bookmark for the Internet Archive's save page button, so I just pasted their URL in and grabbed a cached version of their homepage within 2 minutes. Anyone else keep a backup bookmark for disaster moments like this?

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carter.jennifer20d ago

Ha, that's such a smart trick! I've noticed folks are finally waking up to how fragile our online stuff really is. It's like we trust the cloud to be magic but one server hiccup and your whole week is ruined.

graytorres19d ago

carter.jennifer totally nailed it, the cloud is just someone else's computer and they can trip over a cord anytime. I've started keeping a little text file with wayback links for all my regular sites, saves so much scrambling when something goes dark.