Internet Archive

“basically hosting a second copy of the internet with sufficient bandwidth to serve whatever is currently down”

“check to see if they have a copy of it already - if not, you can always send it to them”

“I donate to them every year b/c I fully agree they're doing a thankless critical job very well.”

“IA is responsive. I had to cancel my donation earlier this year due to some financial circumstances and it was a quick and easy email.”

“Its likely a lot of what internet archive is doing is fair use (not all though, they do push the envelope, e.g. their covid library stunt).”

“any of the archived pages might be altered by the site’s administrator to further their causes”

“the Internet Archive also excludes many sites for ideological reasons which is the opposite of preservation”

“Generally I found the quality of the original scans of books scanned by the IA to be excellent.”

“then they started doing it without any limits whatsoever, which in fact is piracy and illegal”

“I donated a copy of Systems Bible (out of print, hard to find imho) and paid for it to jump the digitization queue”

“archive.org is an incredible blessing that I never really respected enough until the last few years”

“I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcast recordings.”

“All the content I've judged to be of public interest and uploaded to Internet Archive, is still online there today.”

“There has been instances where they delete files without warning with the only explanation being that they don't meet TOS”

“books scanned by IA use a compromise exposure setting in which halftones are passable but text ends up on a muddy gray background”

“This self-inflicted damage to the wayback machine is the real tragedy of this entire affair.”

“I'm more confident in the long-term operational resiliency of the Internet Archive globally than I am in the longevity of a functioning US government”

“This wasn't a very smart move of them. I get why they did it but they put themselves at a huge legal risk.”

“IA would have still lost their case if they hadn't done the National Emergency Library”

“they give their thanks to the Internet Archive for doing so much to preserve the spark”

“So much slice of life nyc and weird cool music stuff that would have never been seen otherwise.”

“Public domain catalogs are huge now. Standard Ebooks, Internet Archive, Gutenberg - tens of thousands of well-formatted free EPUBs.”

“For public domain books, I use Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, and Internet Archive, generally in that order.”

“The internet archive is my safe haven these days, i can go back and remember the old internet.”

“IA archives the page as loaded, then when you view hamfistedly injects its header bar and executes the source JS”

“Archive.org are left wing activists that will agree to censor anything other left wing activists or large companies don't want online.”

“Hopeless. It allows archive tampering by the page's own JS and archive deletion by the domain owner.”

“produces text (the vast majority of the pdf) as black letters on a dirty dishwater background”

“Have you uploaded these scans to the Internet Archive? If not, please consider doing so.”

“nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot”

“It is more trustworthy and accountable, but it cannot realistically stand against government-imposed censorship.”

“Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what's likely a sole maintainer”

“supports full-text search on (AFAIK) its entire scanned book collection, even books that aren't available for borrowing”

“Putting static copies on Github Pages, Cloudflare Pages, and the Internet Archive would make pretty good odds it's preserved.”

“You could also have the Internet Archive crawl your site to preserve it if the above is too much trouble”

“Ironically the best place to find this evidence is in books. Head on over to archive.org”

“For some inexplicable reason, IA responds to that by wiping out past, present, and future archivals of that site.”

“Its maybe the most important site on the Internet because of all the history that exists nowhere else.”

“The criticism of IA in this regard is usually that it was a bad strategy, not that the goals were bad.”

“giving free access to books during a pandemic, in a format that doesn't need physical contact”