• Gork@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Yes but how long until their publisher corporate execs crunch the numbers for the cost of operating the servers and decide it isn’t worth it to keep it going?

    It sounds like a large crawl should be initiated at archive.ph and archive.org (Wayback Machine) to keep this info available to the public.

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      6 months ago

      Exactly. This is why the internet archive should be a universally publicly-funded endeavor. It’s just as important as the world’s libraries.

      I’m really hoping the internet archive shifts to some distributed P2P type model (IPFS, Tahoe-Lafs etc) where anyone can assign a hard drive as tribute, archive any public webpage on it and it’ll be replicated around the world, but still accessible through a single protocol. You can’t stop the signal!