The People Behind the Wayback Machine
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The People Behind the Wayback Machine
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Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine
#2All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand to flaunt the great things that they're doing.
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#3The team at the Internet Archive, responsible for Wayback Machine, ArchiveTeam, the TV News Archive, and many other projects, are true gems. I had the chance to meet Brewster and many others whilst last in San Francisco and their passion is infectious.
If anyone is interested, they have an open lunch on Fridays[1] where you get to see the church, the tech, and meet the team. Each team member and guest gives a few sentences about who they are and what they do, which really gives you a feel to how much work is going on under the covers.
I feel humanity will look back on this period -- lost diskettes, CDs, DVDs, game consoles, Betamax, VHS -- and lament the comparative black hole of information. Myspace history deleted with no warning, Justin.tv deleting history with only 8 days warning[2], ... and a million more examples. The Internet Archive are fighting that one bit at a time.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7826313
[2]: https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/31565557291982848...
Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine
#4All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand to flaunt the great things that they're doing.
At times, it's ok to appreciate the effort and keeping your valuable feedback for some other time.
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#5All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand to flaunt the great things that they're doing.
It's true their site could be more navigable but they're doing the lord's work, so I let them off the hook.
Contacted the Archive Team about a few sites that would be otherwise lost and they archived them, and will eventually be progressively be uploaded to IA. Great folk there as well.
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#6What's the difference between these folks and the Pirate Bay?
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#7What's the difference between these folks and the Pirate Bay?
"It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine
#8The team at the Internet Archive, responsible for Wayback Machine, ArchiveTeam, the TV News Archive, and many other projects, are true gems. I had the chance to meet Brewster and many others whilst last in San Francisco and their passion is infectious. If anyone is interested, they have an open lunch on Fridays[1] where you get to see the church, the tech, and meet the team. Each team member and guest gives a few sen…
#justouttv on EFNet has just been set up for the justin.tv effort.
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#9What's the difference between these folks and the Pirate Bay?
Among many many other differences, assuming your angle isn't to denigrate the Archive team, one of the important differences is that TPB makes no garantees about content availability. Information that you can find through TPB (they host magnet links, not content. magnet links can be used to find other who host content) is only available as long as those who are interested in the content are interested in hosting it. Conversely, the Archive people seek to ensure that content remains available even after everyone else seemingly loses interest in it.
It's something like the difference between your local used book store, and the Library of Congress. Or maybe the difference between the display cases of your local natural history museum, and the basement of the Smithsonian.
Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine
#10What's the difference between these folks and the Pirate Bay?
Among many many other differences, assuming your angle isn't to denigrate the Archive team, one of the important differences is that TPB makes no garantees about content availability. Information that you can find through TPB (they host magnet links, not content. magnet links can be used to find other who host content) is only available as long as those who are interested in the content are interested in hosting it.…
That and they primarily archive public domain material and abandonware (apart from their web archiving project). They really couldn't be more different.