I just noticed something on the New York Post's site.
The "most popular this week" list on the sidebar?
The links point to archive.org's copies of the articles.
So... if there's some future reorganization of the Post's own archives that changes the URLs for the actual articles... the links should still work.
Assuming, of course, that the Wayback Machine retains its format. And, um. Isn't that list generated dynamically, per-view? So, unless someone's looking at a saved copy of a viewed page, the links ought to be fresh, right? And if the user is looking at a saved copy on archive.org, don't the internal links get pointed to the archive anyway?
Cute: check. Interesting: check. Useful? Maybe not so much. But I guess it's a way of pushing the bandwidth for the older content onto someone else's server.
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