What's frustrating is that the ones who claimed to have done this are self-proclaimed "hacktivists". You're stupid if you think the Internet Archive is the enemy in this day and age.
Capitalism hates a memory. Hates/fears anything it can't update, whitewash or otherwise directly control or obscure after the fact.
If humanity had any hope, we'd surround this thing with torches to defend it tooth and nail.
Thanks, I just used their PayPal link to send my support and light my torch!
...Google started adding links to archived websites in the Wayback Machine
They better be compensating it..
I don't know if there is compensation but the internet archive says it's a collaboration and they seem to be happy about it.
I really hope the rest of the archive comes back soon. I was in the middle of a book and it was a book I hadn't read since I was a kid.
Yeah, I could pay for it or wait for it to come via interlibrary loan (it's not exactly a well-known book), but I really didn't need a physical copy. And it isn't even all that long.
Sigh.
Damn it'd be a shame if someone DM'ed me the name of the book and I had to go looking to see if there's an epub/pdf version available for download in certain places. A real shame indeed.
I don't care saying what book it is right here, because I've looked for both and came up wanting. It's not available normally as an ebook for purchase, so I have my doubts.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/997118.Doktor_Bey_s_handbooks_of_strange_sex
Basically, the IA had it because they scan in masses of texts without even caring what they are. As long as they get a copy and it isn't in the archive yet, they'll scan it in.
FWIW, it's pretty amusing.
Oh thats a super off the wall book. It barely exists anywhere let alone an ebook. I stand corrected and humbled.
It was found for me by someone else! I am amazed.
Damn! And I thought I knew all the weird nooks to find books online.... I have much to learn
I got you fam, dm you a link in 1 sec.
Wow! Thanks! I looked and looked!
Anna's Archive, just author's name search. :)
What a dope site!
Oh nice! I've never heard of that before. Bookmarked. Thanks again!
Can I get the link too? The book looks interesting
That's why I download everything
Downloading books you have to borrow from the IA is not easy these days.
Other sides
op forgot to mention that it is a "provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle.
Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
To you as a user it's readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.
You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as 'writing' to the database.
Not just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving
Yep, but I didn't mention that because it's not a part of the "Wayback Machine", it's just the general "Internet Archive" business of archiving media, which is for now still completely unavailable. (I've uploaded dozens of public-domain books there myself, and I'm really missing it...)
Glad to see it's recovering. I hope the whole archive can come back up soon!
currently* back only as readonly
Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
I mean how else would they archive web sites or content?
I’ve always thought they were a crawler.
The Wayback machine is a crawler, which is big part of what they do but not everything. The Wayback machine crawls its own pages, but you can also submit URLs to be crawled.
The other part of what they do is hosting a significant number of digital archives of media that is no longer sold / in print / distributed. Much of that content is user uploaded. Like “oh hey I found this old clip art cd from the early 90s. I don’t really have a use for it, but if this doesn’t get uploaded somewhere it’s probably going to be lost to time. I’ll submit it to the internet archives.”
They do some crawling themselves, but Archive Team (a third party group) does a lot of web archiving as well.
Web crawling?
IA hosts TONS of user uploaded content. They’re not uploading those Gameboy ROMs themselves.
Live music archive is still down for example 😞
My most frequent use case of the IA in general is the Cover Art Archive, and I frequently upload cover art for albums to the CAA via MusicBrainz. That's how I discovered the IA was down, when an upload failed.
RIP
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