brokepoker
June 20th, 2003, 05:03 AM
Has anyone here downloaded a complete archive of the matrix websites and burned to CD-ROM in case more of them go pfut.
You could do it with a program like WGET or there are also many GUI programs that will download entire websites to your HD. Saving a copy might be a good insruance policy and good for documentation purposes.
WGET is available here...
http://www.wget.org/
to use it, open a dos prompt and type WGET http://www.website.com
You will probably want to use the -R switch to set a recursion to a couple levels deep... It will automatically follow links and download subpages linked off the main page too. Just be careful with this unless you have a HUGE hard drive.
WGET -h will display the help file
WGET is an awsome program, it converts the links so when you click on them, it goes to the page on your hard drive instead of the WWW..I have used it to save websites that have a lot of technical info in them for later reference and also for when I don't have a Internet connection available. You do have to keep in mind that websites are copyrighted but the way I figure it, your copy is for personal use and I think that is okay under the copyright law. Your browser saves pages in your cache anyways... If a big matrix site went off the air, the lists, terms of service and everything else would be lost and printing the whole thing out would sure kill a tree or two.
You could do it with a program like WGET or there are also many GUI programs that will download entire websites to your HD. Saving a copy might be a good insruance policy and good for documentation purposes.
WGET is available here...
http://www.wget.org/
to use it, open a dos prompt and type WGET http://www.website.com
You will probably want to use the -R switch to set a recursion to a couple levels deep... It will automatically follow links and download subpages linked off the main page too. Just be careful with this unless you have a HUGE hard drive.
WGET -h will display the help file
WGET is an awsome program, it converts the links so when you click on them, it goes to the page on your hard drive instead of the WWW..I have used it to save websites that have a lot of technical info in them for later reference and also for when I don't have a Internet connection available. You do have to keep in mind that websites are copyrighted but the way I figure it, your copy is for personal use and I think that is okay under the copyright law. Your browser saves pages in your cache anyways... If a big matrix site went off the air, the lists, terms of service and everything else would be lost and printing the whole thing out would sure kill a tree or two.