@fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 8 months agoAfter 32 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down | Ars Technicaarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
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minus-squareDdCno1linkfedilink4•8 months agoThe Wayback Machine in particular is one of the greatest treasures of the Internet. An absolutely invaluable tool and so far entirely irreplaceable.
minus-squareMudManlinkfedilink1•8 months agoHonestly, it should be a public resource. I mean, public libraries and archives being a mandatory requirement for copyright enforcement and publishing records is a thing, and the Wayback Machine proves it’s technologically feasible to approximate it for the Internet, so…
The Wayback Machine in particular is one of the greatest treasures of the Internet. An absolutely invaluable tool and so far entirely irreplaceable.
Honestly, it should be a public resource.
I mean, public libraries and archives being a mandatory requirement for copyright enforcement and publishing records is a thing, and the Wayback Machine proves it’s technologically feasible to approximate it for the Internet, so…