Except the impermanence of the internet under varying conditions such as repressive censorship by oligarchs/fascists, rising operating costs, or even maintainers simply losing interest is rapidly showing itself.
“The internet is forever” may have been wishful thinking 😭
Except the impermanence of the internet under varying conditions such as repressive censorship by oligarchs/fascists, rising operating costs, or even maintainers simply losing interest is rapidly showing itself.
“The internet is forever” may have been wishful thinking 😭
Yeah, the internet hasn’t even been around long enough that the original devs have started dying off.
Imagine in a 100 years when literally no project is still run by its original maintainer. What’s gonna happen then?
There’s gonna be a really strange transition period in about 40-50 years when this starts becoming an issue…
That thought never considered sociatal collapse or plain lack of backups.
How many backup archives of the internet archive do we got going? 😭
And who’s archiving all the stuff that the Internet Archive, being a ‘white hat’ organization that respects robots.txt, omits?
Like 0 full copies? And internet archive itself archived maybe a percent of everything.
IA also succumbs to pressure/legal/government threats which hurts.
I think ghostarchive has some stuff at least