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I'm really glad this is happening. Wikipedia needs to clean up their broken links, and this could help the archive get a wider sampling of websites, so as to pr
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
I'm really glad this is happening. Wikipedia needs to clean up their broken links, and this could help the archive get a wider sampling of websites, so as to preserve more data.
Websites going offline is a huge problem. For example, the now-famous thread from which sleepsort originated (on 4chan's /prog/ textboard) isn't archived anywhere: textboard threads are immortal, so nobody thought to archive any threads until dis.4chan.org went down for good.
Thankfully, some bright spark managed to save the sqlite databases for most of the boards on dis to the Internet Archive, so I was able to track down the thread eventually.