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The wayback machine is pure nostalgia. Every time I go there I’m truly amazed at what it’s like to have a society wide memory that automatically captures these

by aabhay 2y ago

The wayback machine is pure nostalgia. Every time I go there I’m truly amazed at what it’s like to have a society wide memory that automatically captures these different moments of our lives. Old pictures I never thought I’d ever see again. Landing pages for old companies I’ve built and only a handful of my closest friends remember. Blog posts from long deleted places, times, and mental caverns. Just incredible.

otteromkram 2y ago
I try donating every few months. Maybe $5-$10 each time. Like yourself, I think it's an incredible resource and don't mind pitching in( when I can) to help keep it running.
- Elyra 2y ago
  Same here, I have them set as my charity through Amazon smile and humble bundle
  - afruitpie 2y ago
    Amazon Smile was shut down, unfortunately: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...
- sumtechguy 2y ago
  Hope they can last the lawsuit that is still going on from what happened with that book thing.
Scoundreller 2y ago
Reminds me of some reddit post with a link to some page with some local history, but all of the image links were broken. Within a few minutes I posted the link to Wayback and they were delighted because they happened to be archived there.
eggdaft 2y ago
Well you got me excited to check out my first homepage but I guess I predate the WM. When did it start archiving?
- stuffoverflow 2y ago
  Internet archive started making their own crawls in late 1996. I believe the oldest captures in the wayback machine are from data donated by alexa starting from January 1996 [1] 1: https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?sort=-downloads&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221996%22 https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?sort=-downloads&and%...

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The wayback machine is pure nostalgia. Every time I go there I’m truly amazed at what it’s like to have a society wide memory that automatically captures these

by aabhay 2y ago

otteromkram 2y ago
I try donating every few months. Maybe $5-$10 each time. Like yourself, I think it's an incredible resource and don't mind pitching in( when I can) to help keep it running.
- Elyra 2y ago
  Same here, I have them set as my charity through Amazon smile and humble bundle
  - afruitpie 2y ago
    Amazon Smile was shut down, unfortunately: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...
- sumtechguy 2y ago
  Hope they can last the lawsuit that is still going on from what happened with that book thing.
Scoundreller 2y ago
Reminds me of some reddit post with a link to some page with some local history, but all of the image links were broken. Within a few minutes I posted the link to Wayback and they were delighted because they happened to be archived there.
eggdaft 2y ago
Well you got me excited to check out my first homepage but I guess I predate the WM. When did it start archiving?
- stuffoverflow 2y ago
  Internet archive started making their own crawls in late 1996. I believe the oldest captures in the wayback machine are from data donated by alexa starting from January 1996 [1] 1: https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?sort=-downloads&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221996%22 https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?sort=-downloads&and%...