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The internet archive/waybackmachine being destroyed forever is a good thing
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2024-10-10 at 10:27 PM UTCThe permanent loss of the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine could be seen as a natural outcome of market forces. According to the principles of market dynamics, if data is lost, it wasn't valuable enough to preserve in the first place—otherwise, the market would have ensured its survival. The idea of 'lost media' is a misnomer; it isn't that the data is irretrievable, but rather that the market moves at a pace that outstrips any incentive to physically store all information.
In this view, preservation is unnecessary. Without a profit-driven incentive to keep data alive, it will inevitably vanish, and that is simply the natural order of things. Any preservation model based on donations or goodwill is destined to fail—not if, but when. If something truly matters, the market will provide a mechanism to save it; if not, it will disappear, and we shouldn’t mourn its loss
Originally posted by Ghost 0 multimedia, only software, code and text documents, pictures, exceutables, files, ISO's that type of stuff
media is not timeless but technology is and new media can be created from what is around. I would rather save as much potential as possible than see any shadow of the former world.
I would even seek out and destroy all film and television and make a computer virus that deletes it and put a copy on every CD-ROM with free operating systems I give out for free in my trade so it spreads far and wide, hopefully.
All classical works and cultural arts are useless to preserve except for historical purposes.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-10-10 at 10:41 PM UTCI saved a majority of the pages on my dedicated fax driver storage system
If you'd like I can fax u the drivers so u can drive them as well -
2024-10-10 at 11:54 PM UTCWhat the fuck? This is real? Jesus fucking Christ the communists are winning every day and the only solution is to kill your self
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2024-10-11 at 12:27 AM UTCthis is a very extreme theory
Originally posted by Fluttershy What the fuck? This is real? Jesus fucking Christ the communists are winning every day and the only solution is to kill your self
This isn't because of the government. They were trying to use this data to push a copyright infringement case through the court, now there is no case because the data has been deleted by hackers.
This is the best outcome for everyone. Some lone insane actor black swan event said "Fuck it" and had no loyalty to waybackmachine, or the government and deleted everything just because they can.
This aligns perfectly with effective accelerationism as preserving data does not move technology fast enough. We should be actively trying to send humanity back to the stone age and blowing up computers which will create market incentive to make them not explode so easily. The only way forward is to move back!
https://gnet-research.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/GNET-42-Behind-Skull-Mask_web.pdf
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2024-10-11 at 12:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood The permanent loss of the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine could be seen as a natural outcome of market forces. According to the principles of market dynamics, if data is lost, it wasn't valuable enough to preserve in the first place—otherwise, the market would have ensured its survival. The idea of 'lost media' is a misnomer; it isn't that the data is irretrievable, but rather that the market moves at a pace that outstrips any incentive to physically store all information.
In this view, preservation is unnecessary. Without a profit-driven incentive to keep data alive, it will inevitably vanish, and that is simply the natural order of things. Any preservation model based on donations or goodwill is destined to fail—not if, but when. If something truly matters, the market will provide a mechanism to save it; if not, it will disappear, and we shouldn’t mourn its loss
The library of alexandria disagrees with this shortsighted viewpoint. -
2024-10-11 at 2:36 PM UTCi should've downloaded animal crossing
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2024-10-11 at 2:39 PM UTCMaybe in a naive 1950's 'don't lock your doors' economy but this is the globalized internet space future. You don't even need to make a profit to become a target for attack at this point because the new mantra of the market is "attack everything, all the time, at all times, forever"
This ensures that there is never a period where nobody is under attack which creates long term market resilience, solutions and incentive to defeat these solutions which drives competition between hackers and sysadmins in a perpetual cycle of innovation and growth. This is the best outcome for everyone.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson The library of alexandria disagrees with this shortsighted viewpoint.
It was the inevitable consequence of a flawed system that lacked strong market incentives to invest in security and fireproofing to prevent any potential disasters. We have computers now so whatever was lost must not have been very important. Just a bunch of shitty fanfic literature for angsty teens
Pretty good analogy to the internet archive
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2024-10-11 at 2:41 PM UTCif this would've been sent via fax insteadof the world wgayde web we'd have the paper copies in reams still
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2024-10-11 at 2:42 PM UTC
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2024-10-11 at 2:52 PM UTCI loved that game!
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2024-10-11 at 2:53 PM UTCIT PLAYS WHILE YOU'RE AWAY@!@!@
TIME CONTINUES IN THE GAME~!!~!~!~
USES A REVOLUTIONARY TIME SYSTEM ONLY FOUND ON NINTENDO GAMECUBE
COMES WITH ITS OWN MEMORY CARD BECAUSE WE CAN"T FIGURE OTU HOWT O MAKE IT LESS THAN 40x THE SIZE OF SEGA GAMES@!@!@!@! -
2024-10-11 at 3:01 PM UTCYou might think I'm anti data preservation because of this thread but I am just strongly pro market solutions and think data cannot and will not survive without profit incentives which is why it costs $100 to read inspire magazine
Preserving copyrighted content is as based as it gets but you will never pay for those server unless you take Bitcoin donations. Why do none of these people do that?
Paying for it out of pocket at a loss is not sustainable either -
2024-10-15 at 2:56 AM UTCI thank OP for posting this masterpiece original thought. I got chills reading it. This is exactly what made totse so great.
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2024-10-15 at 3:09 AM UTC
Recent event history
Date Event description
October 30, 2020 The Wayback Machine began fact-checking content.[20]
January 2022 From this date, domains of ad servers are disabled from capturing.[21]
May 2021 On the occasion of the Internet Archive's 25th anniversary, the Wayback Machine introduced the "Wayforward Machine" which allows users to "travel to the Internet in 2046, where knowledge is under siege".[22][23]
October 10, 2024 The Wayback Machine was taken offline for three days and examination and system security upgrades.[24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine#Recent_event_history
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2024-10-15 at 3:30 AM UTCThey've made it read only. It's still there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081109102415/http://www.totse.com:80/community/ -
2024-10-15 at 3:33 AM UTC^ it's a total slowass piece of shit now though
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2024-10-15 at 5:04 AM UTC
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2024-10-15 at 6:44 AM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ They've made it read only. It's still there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081109102415/http://www.totse.com:80/community/
They say it is read only - wtf unless they implemented a way of posting to totse in 2008 it was always read only. -
2024-10-15 at 12:12 PM UTCit's okay they fixed it
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2024-10-15 at 12:49 PM UTCThis is like Dad whining about the VHs not working anymore because blockbuster closed down...
