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The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

29 points| rbanffy | 5 years ago |gizmodo.com | reply

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[+] thatlongthrow1|5 years ago|reply
We need an archive for the archive.

Was thinking about this when dwelling over archive.is's habit of blocking Cloudflare DNS users due to Cloudflare not sharing specific types of identifying info on user traffic. I like archive.is but that practice smells so funny it makes me believe the entire site will go dark or paywalled/private in time.

In contrast to the greasy nature of archive.is the owner of archive.org is a data nerd in the purest form. This guy archives, he makes other people want to archive. Archive.org has been such a smashing success that its now too large for it's own good.

We need more alternatives, in the same vein and spirit as archive.org. Please keep all venture capitalist/disruption/innovation agitators away from making the issue over complex or stilted towards a commercialized end game. Just archive.

[+] kwhitefoot|5 years ago|reply
> We need an archive for the archive.

Would a distributed version work? I mean I can't dedicate much bandwidth or enough storage for the whole archive but I could dedicate a few terabyte. Is there anyone working on such a thing?