It's the name for the archive.org site, and what they seek to do is archive information on the Internet. The most fundamental technique is to go around taking "snapshots" of web pages and storing them away. You can go to archive.org, put in a URL, and see if they have any such snapshots. You can also give them a URL and have them archive a snapshot right then.
They also archive other digital information in various forms, and there are various sites with more or less the same mission, like archive.is and archive.ph. The Wayback Machine is the oldest, largest, best known and most popular.
AFAIK, they don't archive YouTube because the volume is too large (and we all know it's 99% cultural battery acid anyway). I'm now in the habit of personally downloading any audio or video content of any possible future importance.
A big problem I've encountered with banned YT videos is that they erase all the "metadata" on the page. That is, if you just have the URL and go to the page, you can't even get the original title to look for it elsewhere. So if you aren't saving the video itself, try to save the title, date, uploader, description, etc, so you can locate it on another site if it vanishes.
It's the name for the archive.org site, and what they seek to do is archive information on the Internet. The most fundamental technique is to go around taking "snapshots" of web pages and storing them away. You can go to archive.org, put in a URL, and see if they have any such snapshots. You can also give them a URL and have them archive a snapshot right then.
They also archive other digital information in various forms, and there are various sites with more or less the same mission, like archive.is and archive.ph. The Wayback Machine is the oldest, largest, best known and most popular.
AFAIK, they don't archive YouTube because the volume is too large (and we all know it's 99% cultural battery acid anyway). I'm now in the habit of personally downloading any audio or video content of any possible future importance.
A big problem I've encountered with banned YT videos is that they erase all the "metadata" on the page. That is, if you just have the URL and go to the page, you can't even get the original title to look for it elsewhere. So if you aren't saving the video itself, try to save the title, date, uploader, description, etc, so you can locate it on another site if it vanishes.