And as it's falling, it'll take the Wayback Machine down with it. Everyone uses it. Even the government. We need a better system. The government should build its own system for archiving web pages and make it freely available, after mirroring the Internet Archive. That way, hopefully, it'll only go down if the US government does, and if that goes down, we have bigger problems.
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Internet Archive has been a remarkable resource for years. Unfortunately, I believe this case will be lost, not because of merit, but because the big money and power brokers don't want it to exist. I can only hope that time proves me wrong, but we should plan as if it won't be with us forever.
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And as it's falling, it'll take the Wayback Machine down with it. Everyone uses it. Even the government. We need a better system. The government should build its own system for archiving web pages and make it freely available, after mirroring the Internet Archive. That way, hopefully, it'll only go down if the US government does, and if that goes down, we have bigger problems.
Internet Archive has been a remarkable resource for years. Unfortunately, I believe this case will be lost, not because of merit, but because the big money and power brokers don't want it to exist. I can only hope that time proves me wrong, but we should plan as if it won't be with us forever.