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The solution to link rot (and to privacy invasion) is to download the internet.
by SubiculumCode 9y ago
The solution to link rot (and to privacy invasion) is to download the internet.
- andai 9y agoCould you please clarify?
- mcraiha 9y agohttp://dilbert.com/strip/1999-06-06 http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-06-06
- SubiculumCode 9y ago1. Download the internets. 2. git the diffs. Privacy comes because if everyone has the internet in their local cache (lol), then external servers can't say what YOU are REALLY looking at.
- kronos29296 9y agoBest of luck trying to scale git. Microsoft took 3 years and they didn't add Office and Windows to it. And they nearly rewrote their own version of git.
- Jtsummers 9y agoIPFS seems to work effectively for storing versions of files. The downside is, as I mentioned in another post, that it's not permanent. Someone has to pin it or it'll disappear. But it doesn't require anything as complicated to use today as trying to modify git to do something it wasn't meant for.
- SubiculumCode 9y agolets stick to concept for now, eh?
- nebabyte 9y agoAh yes, that step will definitely be the bottleneck
- observation 9y agoA few organizations have a text copy of the web. They could potentially offer a service like "WWW in the year 20XX".
- zokier 9y agoMake local mirrors of any content you care.
- andai 9y agoCould you recommend any software for mirroring websites? I've been using scdl and ytdl lately to backup some SoundCloud stuff since it looks like their future is very uncertain.
- aw3c2 9y agohttp://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem