“Maybe archive.org is the permanent version of the web,” muses Dave Winer. “And then of course the next question is why not just publish originally to archive.org?” Interestingly, Micro.blog used to have a feature which automatically saved your posts to the Archive for you. Ironically, both the feature and the blog post announcing it appear to be gone now, the latter linked here thanks only to the Internet Archive.
Addenda
- I’m told by Manton Reece that the archiving features does still exist, even if the blog post does not.