who is saving my website to the way back machine internet archive?

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I don’t really understand very well how it works. Is people actually saving my website or is it automatic? And if so why is mine being saved but not my friend’s?

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> Is people actually saving my website or is it automatic?

Bots do so. It’d be quite an undertaking otherwise.

> And if so why is mine being saved but not my friend’s?

There are a couple of possible reasons. The Occam’s Razor calls for your website being just more popular than your friends’, but another possible plausible reason is that you didn’t make a robots.txt file – which is basically a file telling bots what’s cool to do on your website and what’s not. It *doesn’t* have to be respected, but reputable services will generally obey by it.

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