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Ask HN: How well did we archive the internet for future generations?
When I watch human history docs covering the past millennium I often find myself wishing some people had documented general daily life (as opposed to the "big" events) in more detail. Those seemingly mundane details are just more interesting to me. A lot of things are said about the permanence of things we post to the internet. However, I wonder if we actually forget to remember the early decades of the true internet? I'm not talking about a few random web pages, I'm talking about recording say 10% swaths of each of the 10%-sequentially least-to-most visited websites by year (or something similar). It'd be a shame if we did not save anything for future signal archaeologists to analyze.
- strangattractor 6y agosee: archive.org
- mojomark 6y agoWell, there you go:P Glad someone is looking out for our future past. Donation in process.
- ffpip 6y agoI don't think much of the old internet is archived on the Internet Archive. But many pages on the modern web have a snapshot in the Wayback Machine. If the Internet Archive shuts down, we'll lost the best thing on the internet. If you can, please donate. They have a have a 2-to-1 Matching Gift Campaign going on. https://archive.org/donate https://archive.org/donate
- mojomark 6y agoI poked around with some older URL's I had - worked well to my surprise
- ignoranceprior 6y agoI like this documentary about the Internet Archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs Also worth checking out Archive Team: https://archiveteam.org/ https://archiveteam.org/