I manage the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.
Very happy so many people here care about preserving, and making available, our cultural heritage!
Please know a dedicated, and talented, team of engineers works every day to do a better job of archiving more of the public Web, and making it available via the Wayback Machine.
As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/
The Internet Archive also offers archive-it.org, a subscription service, for those who want a higher level of support and more features.
We appreciate any support you can offer, financial and otherwise. Please share any bug reports, feature suggestions and other feedback with us via email to [email protected]
Oh/and… checkout the new PDF Search feature we just launched at the bottom of web.archive.org. More to come like that in 2022.
We suggest/encourage people link to original URLs but ALSO (as opposed to instead of) provide Wayback Machine URLs so that if/when the original URLs go bad (link rot) the archive URL is available, or to give people a way to compare the content associated with a given URL over time (content drift)
BTW, we archive all outlinks from all Wikipedia articles from all Wikipedia sites, in near-real-time... so that we are able to fix them if/when they break. We have rescued more than 10 million so far from more than 30 Wikipedia sites. We are now working to have Wayback Machine URLs added IN ADDITION to Live Web links when any new outlinks are added... so that those references are "born archived" and inherently persistent.
Note, I manage the Wayback Machine team at the Internet Archive. We appreciate all your support, advice, suggestions and requests.
I manage the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.
Very happy so many people here care about preserving, and making available, our cultural heritage!
Please know a dedicated, and talented, team of engineers works every day to do a better job of archiving more of the public Web, and making it available via the Wayback Machine.
As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/
The Internet Archive also offers archive-it.org, a subscription service, for those who want a higher level of support and more features.
We appreciate any support you can offer, financial and otherwise. Please share any bug reports, feature suggestions and other feedback with us via email to [email protected]
Oh/and… checkout the new PDF Search feature we just launched at the bottom of web.archive.org. More to come like that in 2022.
Finally, you might also find some of the things I wrote here of interest: https://gijn.org/2021/05/05/tips-for-using-the-internet-arch...