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See you all in the backrooms

• textfiles 2y ago
  Anyway, I'm sorry if some people are reading this hastily written blog entry to seem like the archive is taking credit for the process of discovery being done by people. The phrase likely does not mean definitely and perhaps I should have used a different word when I wrote the entry. But the fact remains that the wayback machine is the only place you can see the image in the context of its original website, and that is only happening because the archive is doing such a general crawl. That's all I wanted to get across, all hail the wayback machine, have a great day.
  • boustrophedon 2y ago
    Thanks for writing the blogpost! I think it's perfectly valid as a fun demonstration of the utility of the wayback machine.
  • cal85 2y ago
    I found the article very interesting and didn’t for one second feel the author was ‘taking credit’ in any way. A few unreasonable critics are a good signal that you wrote something that was widely read and enjoyed. They’re not representative, they just comment a lot.
• account42 2y ago
  It wasn't needed this time but it would be great to have a fulltext (and binary!) and reverse image search of the internet archive. Often you know something about what you are searchng fore but have no clue about the location. E.g. I'm interested of finding old installers of a particular type (identifyable by certain byte sequences) but they could have been hosted anywhere. I guess this is not feasible with the current resources of the IA and if it did happen it would probably just result in them getting hammered with DMCA requests and other legal demands for content that the "owners" didn't even know was on the archive.