CD-ROM website snapshots as evidence outside web archives |

Dead Internet Theory: Before routine web archiving, companies and publishers sometimes froze websites onto CD-ROMs, leaving offline snapshots that can preserve pages a crawler never saw.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-08-29

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