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> The internet has, in many ways, supplanted it. The internet is big and sprawling. It's easy to prune, by accident or malice. Think of how much of the web goe
by wizzwizz4 4y ago
> The internet has, in many ways, supplanted it.
The internet is big and sprawling. It's easy to prune, by accident or malice. Think of how much of the web goes through Cloudflare! Think of how much we rely on the Internet Archive; if that went down, where would we be? Libraries, on the other hand, are decentralised, redundant, curated, indexed, and maintained against both bitrot and link rot.
We could make the internet like this. In fact, there are organisations that do so! But there's a reason so many of those organisations call themselves libraries.
- jamiek88 4y agoGreat point about if the internet archive went down. Every single one of us on this site unless in poverty should consider donating to the IA. I’ve just changed my monthly donation from Wikipedia to IA.
- wizzwizz4 4y agoSupporting the Internet Archive is very much worth doing – but we also need a parallel effort to archive the Internet Archive. There are other ways for it to go down than just "we ran out of money". (Then again, I don't know that a parallel effort exists; Archive Team were doing one a few years back, but I think that's stopped. So donating to IA is still your best bet, here.)