The Web We May Have Lost…

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The current blow to the open web that is the Net Neutrality ruling feels terrible to me. My generation saw the web emerge and many of us owe our careers to it. There are a few reasons why the ruling is terrible.youtube.com First of all are the things that everybody should worry about. Allowing ISPs to favour some traffic over others turns the web into a media of the elite. Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker explained this in detail in her CNN opinion piece. Anyone can publish, anyone can consume and learn. And there was no way to protect your content. Before we had the web all the information you wanted to access meant you either had to pay or you had to put a lot of effort in. I remember in school cycling to the library and lending out books, CDs and later DVDs.


I also remember that I had to be on time or the thing I wanted to research wasn’t available. I didn’t have the money to buy books. But I was hungry to learn and I love reading. When I got access to the web this all changed. My whole career started when I got online and I taught myself to start writing code for the web. I never finished any job education other than a course on radio journalism. I never went to college as we couldn’t afford it. I went online. I found things to learn and I found mistakes I could help fix.


I was online very early on when the web was, well — shit. I wasn’t tempted by thousands of streaming services giving me things to consume. Even downloading an MP3 was pretty much wishful thinking on a dial-up connection that cost per minute. I used the web as a read and write medium. I wrote things offline, dialled up, uploaded my changes, got my emails and disconnected. I had to put a lot of effort into publishing online, that’s why I cherish it. As a kid I would ask my parents to stop at motorway gas stations to see trucks and cars from other countries.


We didn’t have much money for holidays, so any time I could meet people outside my country was a thrill for me. You can’t imagine the thrill I felt when I had my first emails from people from all over the world thanking me for my efforts. Using the web, I could publish world-wide, 24/7 and could access information as it happened. This was a huge change to going to the library or reading newspapers. A lot of the information I gathered that way was outdated before it even got published. Editing and releasing is a lengthy process. There’s a flipside, of course. Materials published in a slower, more editorial process tend to be of higher quality. I learned that when I published my books.


I learned that having a daunting technical editor and a more formal publishing format pushed me to do better. A lot of what I had blogged about turned out to be not as hot as I thought it was when I re-hashed it in book form. That’s the price to pay for an open publishing platform — it is up to the readers and consumers to criticise and keep the publishers in check. One great thing about an open web was that it enabled me to read several publications and compare them. I didn’t have to buy dozens of newspapers and check how they covered the same topic. I opened them one after the other and did my comparison online. I even got access to the source materials in news organisations. I had quite a chuckle seeing how a DPA or Reuters article ended up in other publications.


I spent 20 years of my career working on and for the web. I did that because when I started it was a pain in the backside to get online. I felt the pain and I very much enjoyed the gain. I had to show a lot of patience geting the content I wanted and publishing my work. I didn’t have much money from my job as a radio journalist. I took a 10 pack of floppy disks with me to work (later on I used DVD-RWs and re-wrote them). I downloaded whole web sites and articles at work and read them offline at home. I still have a few CDs with "Photoshop tutorials" and "HTML tricks" from back then.


Offline browser tools like HTTrack Website Copier or Black Widow were my friends. At home, I didn’t "surf" as we do now. I opened many browser windows, loaded all the sites and then disconnected. It was too expensive to be online. I would disconnect and go through the browser cache folder to save images that loaded instead of looking at them loading. Dial-up meant hat I paid the same for every minute online as I would have paid for calling someone. I’ve always wanted to make this better. And I wanted to ensure that whoever wants to use the web to learn or to find a new job or make some money on the side can do it. And this is where I am angry and disappointed that there is even a possibility that Net Neutrality is in danger.


It is smarmy, arrogant and holy crap is it trying to be trendy and cool. And what scares me even more is the thought that they could be right. Maybe this debate now is a wake-up call for people to understand that the web is a voice for them. A place for them to be a publisher instead of a consumer or repeater of other content in exchange of social media likes and upvotes. It is time to fight for the web, once again. And how cool is it nowadays to have laptops and mobile phones to carry with you? You can sit in a cafe, access WiFi and you can be and do whatever you want. Wherever inspiration hits you or you try to find something out — go for it.


I sincerely hope that this is what the web still is. I understand that for people who grew up always online that the web is nothing special. It is there, it is like running water when you open a tap. You only care about the water when it doesn’t come. The web did me a lot of good, and it can do so for many others. But it can’t do that if it turns into Cable TV. I’ve always seen the web as my media to control. To pick what I want to consume and question it by comparing it. A channel for me to publish and be scrutinised by others. A read-write medium. The only one we have. Let’s do more of the write part.


It ask you to set exploring level, file type & size, destination location, priority, etc. Only difference is, it ask you for such setting for every single download. Its kind of go through process. But, this software has a by default setting to append ".htm" extension to PHP files. You cant run PHP files with htm extension. So, user must need to change the setting before start the project. Mirroring. Deselect checkbox which says "Append .htm to page files where necessary". Clcik OK. You are good to download. You can use this software to surf any website online as well as offline. It too covers all the basic features like start/stop download, schedule download, file types & size, etc. It has added feature that, you can select the country from where you would like to download the site.


Its very much alike Offline Explore. Once the site is downloaded, you can check it online or offline as you would like to check. It provides trial version for particular time period. So, you can check its functionality and go for pro version if you want. SurfOffline provides basic functionality. It is not like above two softwares. And so, it is light weight compare to other softwares. Its user interface is not user friendly. User will have to find for options like, offline/online mode to visit site. It must present on top toolbar. This software is particularly developed for Macintosh user. Once you hit download button, it automatically downloads all the resources, files in respective folders just like rest of the softwares.


You can check the downloaded history with SiteSucker. Darcy Ripper is differ when it comes to installation. You dont need to install it like other s/w’s. It provide a zip file. You just need to download that zip folder and unzip it. It contains jar file. Double click on executable jar file and you are good to go. Its a biggest file compare to others. It contains basic feature like start/stop process and basic setting like save path, etc. User interface is easy but not compare to others. HTTrack is useful to download sites based on HTML files only. If you go for sites based on PHP files, it will download them but it convert all PHP files into HTML.


It has lots of drawbacks. Yet, you might think, why I mentioned this site..? Despite of these drawbacks, lot of people use this site. It ranks under 8900 as per Alexa ranking as of today. Its quite a good ranking. So, I thought, user must know such site. All the above software’s work in same manner with less or more features. If you go deeply, nobody need "download scheduler" or "restrict file size" or "speed control of download", etc. These are added features which differ them from each other. I will prefer Offline Explore as it is user friendly and very powerful.


It functions properly. You can make choice according to your requirement. All are best. Top 3 are much more useful. Just have 1-2 feature issues which does not matter that much. But, I would like to bring HTTrack into focus once again. Even its not as powerful as others, still, it is used by thousands of user. I guess, its light structure make it more popular. Developers are always in hurry. HTTrack led them in only one direction and provide desired output. And so, all like it. There are lots of other software’s available in market to copy websites. I tried 10, out of which I find these 7 more helpful. So, I mentioned these seven. Your list might be different than mine. So, You can always suggest me if you know more powerful and useful software than these seven. If you think, I have missed any point to mention, please share it through comment. It will be helpful to our readers and me as well.


Note Feel free to link to this answer, or copy the content wherever you like or edit it for your own use. This approach backs up all your content as separate posts with a page indexing into them. See also How to backup all your quora content to a single page on your computer - as either a web page or a pdf which is also a simpler approach. I’ll explain how to automatically download all your answers from quora in one go with just a few minutes of work on your part, even if you have many thousands of answers.. My instructions here are for Windows but it should work similarly on other operating systems and the program HTTrack which I use is also multi-platform too. You get HTTrack here Download HTTrack Website Copier 3.49-2 so you might as well go ahead and download it while you read the rest of this. It’s available for most operating systems. I’m using it on Windows.


I’m on week 4 of my corpus linguistics course and I’ve learned about SketchEngine, COCA/COHA, CLAWS, HTTrack, TagAnt, and the USAS web tagger. IN JUST ONE WEEK. The curse of the data nerd has struck again. As someone who’s fascinated by information and passionate about the process of uncovering new insights, the tools I’ve learned about during this lesson have been… a little overwhelming. But in a good way! It’s difficult not to stop everything I’m doing and spontaneously start a super intense research project that dives into questions I’ve always wanted to know the answers to. So rather than stopping everything to do an intense research project I’ve just stopped altogether, completely paralyzed by the immensity of new opportunities at my fingertips (as I presume any reasonable perfectionist with a tendency towards performance-based anxiety would do).


I jest. It’s all about baby steps! MOOC recommendations, I’ve been exploring these tools using a corpus of my own creation. From the depths of my laptop, I’ve created a small corpus (oxymoron?) of everything that I wrote during my senior year at Binghamton University. TL;DR: Allie skips down memory lane and finds data that proves her last hurrah was indeed as awesome as she remembers it to be. 1. The filler words are real. First, the basics. The corpus I’m working with consists of 4,766 word types and 19,951 tokens. After running it through a list of default stop words from the web, my corpus shrinks to 4,648 types and 11,303 tokens. This means that roughly 43% of the words I wrote my senior year were the same 118 words — prepositions, conjunctions and other fillers like as, in, of, for, when.


I feel like this is the written equivalent of saying "um" and "like" a lot during a time when I was fine-tuning my academic tone. I’ll take it. It will be interesting to compare this stat to writing from before and after my senior year to see how it’s changed over time. 2. Why my senior year was awesome, A.K.A. It’s not what you think. During my senior year I did an independent research project for credit towards my Linguistics major. I chose to study the operationalization of the term "hookup" in contemporary research. It was the best research project ever, but that’s a story for another time. Hookup, students, people, like, used, evidence, sexual, and use show up frequently as a result of my giant linguistic capstone paper which clocks in at a beastly 7,456 words.


For those keeping track at home, that means the paper was 37% of my total word count for senior year. I will eventually be using this data to compare and contrast writing from senior year with writing from undergrad and present-day. Thus, I chose not to cut down my hookup paper so that the size was consistent with the other texts. It makes sense that the paper I spent more time writing than all of my other papers combined should be the most prominent in the word count as well. 3. Let’s keep going — HOOKUPS! Because why the heck not. I’m going to humor myself a little because it’s hard when reviewing the old hookup data to keep from sprinting out the door to do more interviews and participant-observation (again, not how it sounds).


In case anyone is wondering (I was), here are the top ten collocates of "hookup" and "hookups" compared side-by-side (respectively) when measured by MI. 4. feelings // wasted. I will be revisiting this beautiful topic at some point. 4. Oh right, I had a minor too. Don’t get me wrong, I loved my Chinese minor even though it was sadly lacking in hookup research. 2 on my word list for a reason. Pretty spot on, if you ask me. The class I took for my minor senior year required two kinds of papers. The first type of paper was based on the books we read in class. The second was a reflection that we had to write after attending a minimum of two Chinese cultural events on campus. We couldn’t use the first person to describe what we had experienced. As a result the papers ended up being these vague, awkward abstracts of what we had seen, framed by the Chinese cultural and historical canons from the class and our prior experiences.


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These superb HTTrack alternative options that we’ve compiled for you are bound to satisfy your web crawling and offline browsing needs. What the said software actually does is that it gives you the ability to download entire sites from the Internet to your computers, so that you’re able to access them even in the absence of an Internet connection. For those with weak and unreliable network connections, this is a definite boon, as even during an Internet outage you can easily continue to browse through your favorite sites to gain whatever information you’re looking for. The free and open source tool specializes in creating mirrored versions of websites by assembling the downloaded site in such a way that the original link structure doesn’t change.


Moreover, it’s also capable of resuming interrupted downloads. It has been written in C, and works great on Windows, Mac, Linux as well as FreeBSD. Surely, it’s quite a wonderful software to work with, but that doesn’t mean its competitors aren’t. The few we’ve gathered in the space below provide similar attributes, while also offering additional features of their own. Here’s a detailed look at them. Part of the well known GNU Project, this little tool supports downloading through HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols. It’s free of cost, and comprises of various interesting features. These include its capability to use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories.


It is able to run on most Unix-like operating systems as well as Windows and others. GNU Wget has been designed specifically for unstable and slow network connections, and hence is a wonderful tool for those looking to retrieve their frequently failing downloads. MetaProducts Systems’ Offline Explorer is a worthy program like HTTrack, but it’s a paid download.youtube.com Its developers however justify its cost by delivering a number of unique features to help you easily access your desired content even without an Internet connection. Its users interface is one of its major strengths, while it even contains its own browser, so you needn’t install any other. Many pages these days, contain Java scripts, Java applets, cookies, post requests, referrers, Cascading Style Sheets, Macromedia Flash, XML/XSL files, Contents files and MPEG3 list files.


Offline Explorer is capable of downloading them all, as well as processing them to let you access them offline. Using its multi-threaded downloading engine, PageNest downloads up to forty files at a time, making the best use of you Internet connection. This way, you get all the files you need, without having to worry about losing your network connection. Once downloaded, all websites can easily be shifted onto other devices, since they’re in standard HTML and JPEG formats. Our next software similar to HTTrack is called BackStreet Browser possesses the ability to download websites in a zipped format. You can then browse through the contents of the site using its built-in offline browser or just unzip them and use the web pages offline like you normally would.


Everything from HTML, graphics, Java Applets, sound and other such files are downloaded by the BackStreet Browser and rendered for you to go through. This Windows-only program even features an Update trait which downloads new or modified files. BackStreet Browser can be acquired for free. NCollector Studio is a simple software offering all the basic functions you’d want a website mirroring software to possess. It enables offline browsing, website crawling and more. Additionally, it contains search providers in the form of Google Images and Bing Images. It’s a Windows-only tool, and it requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 in order for it to work. Two versions of NCollector Studio exist, with one being a free version and the other, a paid download which comprises of a few premium features. Even the paid version can be tried out for free for a limited period of time.


The name says it all; this sixth program like HTTrack which we’ve brought for you today has a knack for working with the Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and other IE-based browsers. Moreover, it even possesses the ability to work with online tools like newsreaders, e-mail clients and more. You can even archive PDF documents using Local Website Archive. Another one of its handy features is that it can easily zip files, making it easy for you to email your offline websites to anyone who wishes to access them.youtube.com This software is available for free, yet there’s even a Pro version with enhanced features. Our last pick is a Mac exclusive.