The Internet Archive is back online

Post by jetrink » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:31 PM UTC

maire wrote: post #8

seestem wrote: post #2

It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.

I don't know if bittorrent has improved - but 20 years ago I had a personal issue with it. At that time our son was using it for games. He goes away to college and came home for the first school break. I get a phone call from our internet provider asking if our son was home. I was so shocked and handed the phone to our son. Apparently at that time bittorrent was optimizing for the most efficient path to a host. Since…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:34 PM UTC

uniqueuid wrote: post #5

seestem wrote: post #2

It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.

The problem is that it's hard to do this in a way that ensures good archival of ALL resources. Bittorrent works well for popular things but fails for marginal content (unless some really dedicated individuals step in.) What the internet archive provides is a way to have access to many many resources which you didn't know you needed in advance.

Post by Cheer2171 » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

seestem wrote: post #11

Cheer2171 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say this as if it is an original idea. Of course the IA is working on this and have been for over 6 years. There already is a DWeb version. They have been advancing DWeb infrastructure. The IA hosts all kinds of DWeb developer events. But it is over 50 petabytes and the IA gets a huge amount of traffic through the regular web that they need to serve quickly and efficiently to their users. Guess what has happened…

It is not my original idea, but it is an obvious idea to anyone who knows how the internet works, I just added it to get the discussion going.

Post by throwaway48476 » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:38 PM UTC

dark-star wrote: post #17

throwaway48476 wrote: post #6

When the internet archive censors a website is it deleted permanently or just not publicly available?

They black out all items that get a DMCA complaint or similar request (so it's still there just not accessible). However they permanently delete illegal stuff.

Post by Dalewyn » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 12:39 PM UTC

Kuinox wrote: post #4

dusted wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I kind of agree, but the way the internet is going, with everyone being behind carrier-grade nat, it's not much of a decentralized network of computers anymore, not to mention all the kids with their laptops and tablets not even hosting anything :(

UPnP exists and allow devices to ask the router to open a port to them.