But the wayback machine is pretty klunky and slow, honestly. This is very true. Sometimes it takes 5-10 seconds to load the calendar view for an archived page

But the wayback machine is pretty klunky and slow, honestly. This is very true. Sometimes it takes 5-10 seconds to load the calendar view for an archived page, and another 5-10, or more, to load a snapshot. They have a ton of data to manage with limited resources, but it still seems it should be possible to go faster than this. If there's just not enough budget for I/O, maybe they could offer a donate-for-data-dump option, where you can donate in exchange for loading data of interest (say, BBC archives) into a storage medium or query engine of one's choice, so one could do research at a much faster pace.