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Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode
The https://web.archive.org/ service is up again in "(provisional, read-only) service". The rest of the Archive.org services are still down.
- gnabgib 2y agoTwo days ago (37 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836677
- Alifatisk 2y agoWhy did the points matter?
- quickuser71 2y agoThey don't, they are informative.
- keyle 2y agoMaybe to highlight the fact that it already made the homepage.
- Alifatisk 2y agoOh okey, thanks!
- ramon156 2y agoIn this show, the points don't matter
- gingersnap 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAGwNtI26w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAGwNtI26w
- r721 2y agoJust means that post wasn't unnoticed and 37 users found it interesting enough to upvote.
- jakeogh 2y agoThe Wayback Machine is critical infrastructure. It needs independent copies.
- jfil 2y agoThere's no grownup in the room who will fix this. "You're It". I recommend that you take this opportunity to download 1 favourite old website/article/piece of software from the Archive and rehost it on your own site. Reach out to me if you'd like help with getting started.
- yasser_kaddoura 2y agoI used to solely depend on Wayback machine to automate archiving pages. Now, I am archiving webpages using selenium python package on https://archive.ph/ https://archive.ph/ and https://ghostarchive.org/ https://ghostarchive.org/. This told me not to depend on 3rd party services. Might self-host https://archivebox.io/ https://archivebox.io/.
- keyle 2y agoI was just fantasising earlier, daydreaming, about what a distributed warc or similar solution would look like, with peering and user or distributed server archiving. Either by browser plugin submission or passively sending the urls to servers to do the fetching and archiving (removes some of the privacy issues). I think it's everyone's responsibility to make sure the web gets cached, not one org... and since Google has canned the Google cache.......
- aspenmayer 2y agoHere's some prior art: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page
- nikisweeting 2y agoArchiveBox v0.8 is adding the beginnings of a content addressable store for P2P sharing! Stay tuned :)
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoThere should be more internet archives, for various reasons, but it doesn't seem like anyone is willing to put in the effort and money involved, let alone the legal headaches.
- jfil 2y agoI agree. And I am dismayed that government and academic institutions like to dance around the legal issues of archiving (outsourcing the legal risk to Internet Archive), instead of pushing for legal protections/exemptions for the act of archiving.
- M95D 2y agoIs there any searchable mirror (and tracker) of Internet Archive's torrents?
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