sigh Entirely avoidable, entirely predictable. It's time to talk about what happens next. The Internet Archive must cost a fortune to run. There's no way they'

sigh Entirely avoidable, entirely predictable. It's time to talk about what happens next. The Internet Archive must cost a fortune to run. There's no way they're going to get enough donation money if they only provide old website archives. Their "online library of everything" gambit was an attempt to boost their donations by attracting a wider audience. They'll have to diminish the capabilities of the wayback machine in some way. I think they'll replace domain-based search with some kind of LLM-based conversational frontend, grabbing some funding from OpenAI or someone in the process. It's too bad. I've been scraping the wayback machine ever since they did this stupid "pandemic library" and I noticed that they were allowing full movie and game rips with zero moderation. I'd like to have gotten a more complete archive, but what I have now is pretty good for my own uses. If you did the same, good job. If you didn't, well, I did warn you over and over ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=phendrenad2%20archive&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... )