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Comment by ravenstine | Hacker News Reader

Archive.org is such a wonderful institution.

The other day, I discovered that the Wayback Machine has been archiving YouTube videos in full HD. Most videos aren't on there, of course, and it seems to only go back as far as ~2012 (HTML5 video switchover?), but some of them are there.

Y'all will be getting more donations from me. :)

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I was wondering if something like that existed. A lot of times I add to my YouTube WatchLater list, which can often times be much later in tim that by the time I get around to it it’s not unusual for videos to be removed by the user or deleted for unknown reasons. And there’s no text to even see what the video was.

that does my head in. I have so many videos on most of my playlists that im hardly ever able to guess what the missing video was.

This is why I backup videos with youtube-dl. Internet history can be completely erased at a moment's notice, and some things ought to belong to the public if they're to never see the light of day again otherwise.

I'd suggest a slight revision to your theorem: > Internet history can be completely erased at a momement's notice (unless it would embarrassing for you later in life)...

Yes, indeed.

In these cases, I just Google the video I'd. Enough to find its title somewhere.

Thanks, I had no idea about that. I found their Game Books Collection today, thought that was pretty neat.

https://archive.org/details/gamebooks

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