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The Endangered Internet Archive Is Full of Treasures

56 points by jerheinze 5y ago

dublin 5y ago
FWIW, If you asked me to choose whether I'd get to keep the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine or Wikipedia, I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. (Not to mention the opportunities for serendipitous discovery are always amazing at the Internet Archive, even outside the Wayback Machine.) I don't use the Internet Archive as often, but when I need it, I need it bad, and Brewster Kahle is the ultimate Internet badass for creating it. That is all.
- edo9k 5y ago
  I love getting lost in a libraries, just randomly picking a book from the shelves. Which hasn't been possible for a while, because of COVID. The Archive has helped me a lot during the pandemic. I often go there just to read something on the Byte Magazine collection, or old manuals for mainframes, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, 6502 Assembly... romances, year books, games, etc.
- ArchStanton 5y ago
  >I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. I'd have to agree with you. My latest project is to busily download and store everything I might possibly use from the Internet Archive (and Dailymotion/youtube/gutenberg) since I just assume that the Walt Disney Police are going to ramp up copyright enforcement (plus the youtube ad thing is going to get worse). As it turns out, I think that a couple of terabytes will do it for me, so it isn't a huge datahoarding issue.
- sha-3 5y ago
  And the Internet Archive contains Wikipedia, so it's a win-win.
Mindwipe 5y ago
Christ, this is a story that admits in it's second paragraph that it's headline is false. I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly, but it won't eliminate the IA. It might force the current board to resign though, which they should for being so recklessly stupid.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  > I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly - which they should for being so recklessly stupid. A reasonable analysis is that you're cheering on the harm that this lawsuit is designed to do. I'd say Orrin Hatch and other big-copyright-purchased pols would be quite proud of your sentiment. Conversely, folks who don't support copyright corruption and the endless damage it does might take issue with this sort of scorched-earth cheerleading.
WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
Copyright ruins every possible thing it can. We are long past time to reform these purchased laws that Americans never asked for.
textfiles 5y ago
Weird this 2020 article hit the front page for a while, so obligatory link to the donation page: https://archive.org/donate https://archive.org/donate Obligatory link to the "Computers on Tape" collection: https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers

56 points by jerheinze 5y ago

FWIW, If you asked me to choose whether I'd get to keep the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine or Wikipedia, I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. (Not to mention the opportunities for serendipitous discovery are always amazing at the Internet Archive, even outside the Wayback Machine.) I don't use the Internet Archive as often, but when I need it, I need it bad, and Brewster Kahle is the ultimate Internet badass for creating it. That is all.

edo9k 5y ago
I love getting lost in a libraries, just randomly picking a book from the shelves. Which hasn't been possible for a while, because of COVID. The Archive has helped me a lot during the pandemic. I often go there just to read something on the Byte Magazine collection, or old manuals for mainframes, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, 6502 Assembly... romances, year books, games, etc.
ArchStanton 5y ago
>I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. I'd have to agree with you. My latest project is to busily download and store everything I might possibly use from the Internet Archive (and Dailymotion/youtube/gutenberg) since I just assume that the Walt Disney Police are going to ramp up copyright enforcement (plus the youtube ad thing is going to get worse). As it turns out, I think that a couple of terabytes will do it for me, so it isn't a huge datahoarding issue.
sha-3 5y ago
And the Internet Archive contains Wikipedia, so it's a win-win.

Mindwipe 5y ago

Christ, this is a story that admits in it's second paragraph that it's headline is false. I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly, but it won't eliminate the IA. It might force the current board to resign though, which they should for being so recklessly stupid.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
> I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly - which they should for being so recklessly stupid. A reasonable analysis is that you're cheering on the harm that this lawsuit is designed to do. I'd say Orrin Hatch and other big-copyright-purchased pols would be quite proud of your sentiment. Conversely, folks who don't support copyright corruption and the endless damage it does might take issue with this sort of scorched-earth cheerleading.

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago

Copyright ruins every possible thing it can. We are long past time to reform these purchased laws that Americans never asked for.

textfiles 5y ago

Weird this 2020 article hit the front page for a while, so obligatory link to the donation page: https://archive.org/donate https://archive.org/donate Obligatory link to the "Computers on Tape" collection: https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers