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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 menti
by 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 agoI 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 agoAnd the Internet Archive contains Wikipedia, so it's a win-win.