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Archive.org is asking for donations

117 points by wowsig 9y ago

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Tepix 9y ago
Already donated. They're doing a great job!
niuzeta 9y ago
Archive.org is one of those services that I don't use often but that I feel glad that they exist. Thanks for letting us know how to contribute. Donated.
gallerdude 9y ago
I don't know why, there's just something extremely pleasing about archiving things. I have a 2TB external hard drive, and I find a lot of enjoyment out of downloading my favorite things. Archive.org is one of my favorite places to browse and download stuff.
- walterbell 9y ago
  What do you use for archiving web pages?
tristor 9y ago
Archive.org is one of the most important online services. This and Wikipedia will always get my donation, as they are near and dear to my own personal passion of us recording and sharing human knowledge across cultural and geographical boundaries. These simple services do more to make the world a better place than any new shiny mobile app. Donated obviously :)
ct0 9y ago
Where is the guy who has $81M in bitcoin. I hope he sees this post soon.
- tehlike 9y ago
  Ehy not nominate?
justherefortart 9y ago
Maybe if they hadn't retroactively applied robot.txt, I'd consider it. Losing decades of a website because they updated their current terms is annoying and has made the site worthless to me.
- pfg 9y ago
  As I understand it they're in the process of changing this behaviour[1]. [1]: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
reiichiroh 9y ago
I appreciate them and donated.
Feniks 9y ago
The internet never forgets. More than one politician has found this out.
Zamicol 9y ago
I'm getting a stripe error message when I try to donate.
0xCMP 9y ago
Donated $100. Supposedly a donor will match your donations 3 to 1 so in a way I donated another $300 to them. We can't know who we are unless we know where we came from. That goes for politicians, companies, and organizations as well. We appreciate them, but probably not enough given that this information would be lost or entirely inaccessible without them.
drusepth 9y ago
Question: what are the pros and cons of having this centralized site versus just having some kind of distributed archive (e.g. the whole site as a torrent or other format)? I feel like the latter allows people to contribute (e.g. "hosting" / seeding) while also providing many more points of failure resilience. Also: I trust Archive.org (though only because I don't have a reason not to, and I'm generally pretty trusting), but a distributed version could also provide peer validation and probably historical changes over time, instead of having to trust just one (potentially hijacked at any point in time) source. I have the same qualms about Wikipedia. I use both on occasion and have donated on an even rarer occasion, but I always wonder whether a high-traffic website is the best format for an archive of information that only loses money.
aoner 9y ago
Be sure to look up Brewster Kahle: https://youtu.be/M6rsPgnA87Q https://youtu.be/M6rsPgnA87Q
MilnerRoute 9y ago
In his Christmas video this year, Donald Knuth says this is one of three sites that he always supports. The other two are Wikipedia and the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

117 points by wowsig 9y ago

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Tepix 9y ago

Already donated. They're doing a great job!

niuzeta 9y ago

Archive.org is one of those services that I don't use often but that I feel glad that they exist. Thanks for letting us know how to contribute. Donated.

gallerdude 9y ago

I don't know why, there's just something extremely pleasing about archiving things. I have a 2TB external hard drive, and I find a lot of enjoyment out of downloading my favorite things. Archive.org is one of my favorite places to browse and download stuff.

walterbell 9y ago
What do you use for archiving web pages?

tristor 9y ago

Archive.org is one of the most important online services. This and Wikipedia will always get my donation, as they are near and dear to my own personal passion of us recording and sharing human knowledge across cultural and geographical boundaries. These simple services do more to make the world a better place than any new shiny mobile app. Donated obviously :)

ct0 9y ago

Where is the guy who has $81M in bitcoin. I hope he sees this post soon.

tehlike 9y ago
Ehy not nominate?

justherefortart 9y ago

Maybe if they hadn't retroactively applied robot.txt, I'd consider it. Losing decades of a website because they updated their current terms is annoying and has made the site worthless to me.

pfg 9y ago
As I understand it they're in the process of changing this behaviour[1]. [1]: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-search-engines-dont-work-well-for-web-archives/ https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...

reiichiroh 9y ago

I appreciate them and donated.

Feniks 9y ago

The internet never forgets. More than one politician has found this out.

Zamicol 9y ago

I'm getting a stripe error message when I try to donate.

0xCMP 9y ago

Donated $100. Supposedly a donor will match your donations 3 to 1 so in a way I donated another $300 to them. We can't know who we are unless we know where we came from. That goes for politicians, companies, and organizations as well. We appreciate them, but probably not enough given that this information would be lost or entirely inaccessible without them.

drusepth 9y ago

Question: what are the pros and cons of having this centralized site versus just having some kind of distributed archive (e.g. the whole site as a torrent or other format)? I feel like the latter allows people to contribute (e.g. "hosting" / seeding) while also providing many more points of failure resilience. Also: I trust Archive.org (though only because I don't have a reason not to, and I'm generally pretty trusting), but a distributed version could also provide peer validation and probably historical changes over time, instead of having to trust just one (potentially hijacked at any point in time) source. I have the same qualms about Wikipedia. I use both on occasion and have donated on an even rarer occasion, but I always wonder whether a high-traffic website is the best format for an archive of information that only loses money.

aoner 9y ago

Be sure to look up Brewster Kahle: https://youtu.be/M6rsPgnA87Q https://youtu.be/M6rsPgnA87Q

MilnerRoute 9y ago

In his Christmas video this year, Donald Knuth says this is one of three sites that he always supports. The other two are Wikipedia and the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences