OT: Internet Archive hacked

[fiamme red]

It’s my favorite website, the one I use most. Currently I’m doing some research on an historical subject, and having online access to many digitized books and documents from the 19th and early 20th centuries has been invaluable to me. I contribute regularly to the website during its fundraising drives because I feel that it’s irreplaceable.

It’s a very sad world when hackers would do something like this. I pray that the IA is able to recoup and get back online.

[dan_hudson]

I use it every month or two. The Wayback feature in particular is super-awesome. Will be a big loss if they cannot recover.

[fiamme red]

Originally Posted by dan_hudson

I use it every month or two. The Wayback feature in particular is super-awesome. Will be a big loss if they cannot recover.

There was an article a few weeks ago about how Wayback Machine is saving the Internet from “digital rot.”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...e-the-internet

According to a Pew study, 38% of webpages that existed on 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later.

[bigbill]

I'm finishing a military history thesis for my 2nd MA. Can you get an @edu address to access a college library? I prepare curriculum for graduate level history classes, particularly in information warfare, so I keep my access as a contract employee.

[unterhausen]

I used the wayback machine recently to look at the Henry James site. I probably have their paper catalog, but I'm not sure I could find it. Sad that someone felt like hacking it. Hack amazon or something.

[slowpoke]

Small request: if you ever download any bike component manuals or catalogs, also upload them to the Internet Archive!

There used to be a vintagelotusbicycles.com catalog site that went down. Would've been nice had the owner also mirrored their collection on the Internet Archive.

[unterhausen]

It's not accessible right now

[smontanaro]

The status message on Bluesky as of about 10 hours ago indicates it is a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) and that the data is safe. My first thought was that no doubt the archive is backed up.