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The Internet Archive is back online

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339 points Wingy | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 11:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.616s | source
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seestem ◴[16 Oct 24 12:10 UTC] No.41858155[source]▶
It would be better if the Internet Archive was decentralized without a central point of failure, maybe run on something like bittorent.
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uniqueuid ◴[16 Oct 24 12:21 UTC] No.41858243[source]▶
The problem is that it's hard to do this in a way that ensures good archival of ALL resources.

Bittorrent works well for popular things but fails for marginal content (unless some really dedicated individuals step in.)

What the internet archive provides is a way to have access to many many resources which you didn't know you needed in advance.

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