The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks
www.theverge.com
The Wayback Machine is back online.

edit: adjusted title slightly

  • dread@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    1 day ago

    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.

  • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
    130·
    2 days ago

    …Google started adding links to archived websites in the Wayback Machine

    They better be compensating it…

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • abofim@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    64·
    2 days ago

    op forgot to mention that it is a "provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle.

    • TheLugal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      2 days ago

      To you as a user it’s readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Not just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving

        • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          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…)

        • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          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.”

        • pmcEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          They do some crawling themselves, but Archive Team (a third party group) does a lot of web archiving as well.

        • misk@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          IA hosts TONS of user uploaded content. They’re not uploading those Gameboy ROMs themselves.

    • pmcEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      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.