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I looked up this page on archive.org

http://superuser.com/questions/333880/what-is-the-source-of-this-funny-scratching-card-shuffling-noise-in-windows

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://superuser.com/questions/333880/what-is-the-source-of-this-funny-scratching-card-shuffling-noise-in-windows

It has copies for 4 months. march 2013-june 2013, archived when the page was gone. (so those archives from then are as good as saving a 404 error)

So for the last 6 months archive.org hasn't updated their copy of the page.

Is there any way to get archive.org to save the page as it is for the current date, because it has changed since they last saved it?

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From what I recall, the Wayback machine purposefully doesn't have pages fresher than six months. I'll see if I can find the policy. –  Al E. Feb 23 at 0:37
    
I have seen that written there but this is longer than 6 months. –  barlop Feb 23 at 1:21
    
@AlE. ah I notice the page says up to 24 months.. doh. well, we'll see –  barlop Feb 23 at 1:26

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There is a form for saving a copy on https://archive.org/web/web.php:

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You can also go to https://web.archive.org/web/save/{url-you-want-to-save} to make the Wayback Machine take a snapshot of the current state. This is what happens when you use the above form.

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it seems to refuse to save the current page superuser.com/questions/333880/… –  barlop Jul 26 at 10:51
    
That is understandable. The current page gives a 404. You can only archive pages while they still exists. –  Hjulle Jul 26 at 11:06
    
Have you tried going to the page? not through web archive.org but try going to the page I linked to. Just right click it and open it in a tab, you should see it appears.. so I suppose it's not a 404? –  barlop Jul 26 at 11:14
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It is most definitely a 404. Try going to the site in a "private browsing" tab, so you are not logged in. The Wayback Machine does not have a Stackexchange account. –  Hjulle Jul 26 at 11:22
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From the Internet Archive FAQ

Why are there no recent archives in the Wayback Machine?

It generally takes 6 months or more (up to 24 months) for pages to appear in the Wayback Machine after they are collected, because of delays in transferring material to long-term storage and indexing, or the requirements of our collection partners.

In some cases, crawled content from certain projects can appear in a much shorter timeframe — as little as a few weeks from when it was crawled. Older material for the same pages and sites may still appear separately, months later.

There is no access to files before they appear in the Wayback Machine.

As far as I know, Stack Exchange hasn't made any special arrangements with the Archive to get its content indexed faster than normal.

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An exception to the "it generally takes 6 months or more (up to 24 months" would be that a page appears right away when somebody enters it in. The link to it appears, and that was available for 4 months running. I suppose though after that it's automated. I suppose we'll see what happens by 2016, maybe i'll accept your answer then if shown to be right. –  barlop Feb 23 at 1:26
    
your last paragraph is a bit silly (nobody suggested stackexchange had made a special arrangement), anyhow, I thought i'd let you know, it's possible to save the latest page, see the new answer to this question. –  barlop Aug 3 at 18:03

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