The People Behind the Wayback Machine • Hacker News Board

Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Jun 01, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

Crito wrote: post #9

jshb wrote: post #6

What'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.…

Archive Team != the people behind the Wayback Machine.

Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine

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Post by AznHisoka » Sun, Jun 01, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

butwhy wrote: post #2

All 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.

I for one could care less if they don't have TheLatestFad.js installed. Give me the data.

Re: The People Behind the Wayback Machine

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Post by archagon » Sun, Jun 01, 2014, 7:49 PM UTC

Paul12345534 wrote: post #15

I love the Wayback Machine, I wish they'd archive all pages though even those that don't wish to be archived.... keeping them away from public view until copyrights expire someday.

The Wayback Machine is so essential to the nature of the internet that I wish it could be made into some sort of automatic, decentralized service that's part of the web itself. Imagine how much linked knowledge would permanently, irreparably disappear if this one company went out of business!