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The article doesn't mention why archive.org demand went up so much after COVID. Does anyone know?
by ufo 6y ago
The article doesn't mention why archive.org demand went up so much after COVID. Does anyone know?
- gkoberger 6y agoI'm not sure, but this article suggests people might just be online more and reading more? http://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/what-it-means-to-be-a-library-during-covid-19/ http://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/what-it-means-to-be-a-lib...
- manquer 6y agoNot just reading, general increase in internet use, for example they have a lot of old archived games, many official covid health pages only track current numbers so wayback machine is the only way to track first / second derivative data points etc.
- sp332 6y agoI don't know if this explains all of it, but they launched a National Emergency Library, where they pooled the DRM'd versions of ebooks from lots of libraries and removed one little bit of the DRM restrictions. http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/ http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...