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An archive site is a website that presents obsolete or dead
webpages for a viewing audience. This is part of keeping alive the “retro tech”
phenomenon, and maintaining old technology landmarks for posterity.
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Techopedia Explains Archive Site
Archive sites may work on the basis of a web crawler to look
for specific kinds of obsolete content, or they may work on the basis of user
submissions. Some work on a combination of the two. Other archive websites
might pull from a specific venue. For instance, the massive GeoCities web domain
that was taken down years ago was a repository for many thousands of
user-created sites. A GeoCities-specific archive site might take various pages
from this obsolete domain, and move them to a place where web users can continue to access
them.
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