The Internet Archive is back online

Post by creer » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 5:45 PM UTC

Cheer2171 wrote: post #9

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.

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…

Post by karlzt » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

krunck wrote: post #77

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #50

There have been so many instances since it's been down that I tried to access IA resources and realized they were unavailable. I'm still bitter that of all the targets a hacker could've chose, it was the IA. Couldn't have happened to a better website. I plan on upping my monthly donation as soon as I can.

What makes you think the "hacker" was just a person looking for an easy target? More likely that this was a targeted attack by those that don't like IA.

Post by DrillShopper » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

edgineer wrote: post #30

chirau wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they censor anything, strictly archiving. Do you know of any instance in which they censored a site?

Kiwi farms

Post by TZubiri » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 9:59 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 7402 » Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:55 PM UTC

Alifatisk wrote: post #75

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #50

There have been so many instances since it's been down that I tried to access IA resources and realized they were unavailable. I'm still bitter that of all the targets a hacker could've chose, it was the IA. Couldn't have happened to a better website. I plan on upping my monthly donation as soon as I can.

Hope these hackers receive lots of negative reactions from their peers and people around them.