The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

https://archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

@textfiles

Thank you for so much work.

@textfiles oh nice the vintage Japanese computer games are back up
@textfiles
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@textfiles Your team are real life superheroes.
@textfiles I predict that the attacks on the Internet Archive will go away after the election. Somebody just doesn't want the truth to be out there.
@Magnifico @textfiles
I can understand attacking the wayback machine - but why wipe out 19th century periodicals?
@Nazani @Magnifico @textfiles because they don't understand the difference?

@textfiles I never realized how much I depend on the IA, until mean people took it away. And it's in places I never realized; links on Wikipedia were broken, because the IA held the only copy of that website or other material.

I'm already a donor, but I'll be looking at my budget to see if I can increase what I contribute.

@textfiles thank you so much for your hard work! Absence really does make the heart grow fonder, I don't think I entirely noticed how important archive org is for my nerd research! β™₯️
@textfiles under the textbook definition for awesome is an example with all you in it! y'all rock SO HARD 🫢🏻
@textfiles thanks very much for all that you do!
@textfiles thank you for your service. we all appreciate it.
@textfiles it’s not back for reading anything in iOS
@textfiles thank you! I noticed that about 3000 of the 25,000 things we’ve uploaded to the digital transportation archive are missing. Also, while the site was down, we were getting multiple reviews on items as seen below. Packed with dangerous spam that’s still there.
@Aviation_Librarian can you email me at jscott at archive.org and tell me how you think the things are missing? I'm not doubting you, but it helps me make some analysis
@Aviation_Librarian verified the search engine was and is stale. Will be fixed in the future.
@textfiles i am no longer mentally ill
@textfiles thank you so much for your work πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™

@textfiles thanks for your work.

I just come to wonder: How much did this threw your budget calculations back?

@ppxl it's not great!
@textfiles I thought so. I cannot afford much but I'll send something your way
@textfiles You’re the heroes the Internet needs, Jason.
@textfiles thank you for continuing to preserve the internet history! ❀️
@textfiles
My eyes are not watering, I just got something in my eye. No I'm not crying! You're crying!
@textfiles great news! big thanks to the whole archive team. the archive is incredibly important, and personally, I would be lost without all those grateful dead recordings
@textfiles keep up the good work, and don't stop what your doing because we all believe in what you are doing.
@textfiles Wow, thanks for everything. Could not have been an easy restore. Good to see it all back up!

@textfiles I'm still having a lot of issues using the /* files-in-directory listing service - for example, `https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://remix.overclocked.org/songs/*` - frequently gives "Wayback Machine failed to return archive information." Is this a load problem or something else?

(can't seem to edit that url into something that works, thanks mastodon lol)

Wayback Machine

@greg there is a pile of those
@textfiles well done and thanks for all the hard work. May the modern-day Library of Alexandria live on! πŸ’ͺ
@textfiles (I mean except the part where it got burnt down of course)
@textfiles YEE HAWWW!!!!!!! We're back, baby!!!

@textfiles

Excellent. Wayback is my Way back..

With VV's +++ATH. I've been thinking about it all and the internets that most people know...

What do you think of the proposition that Mastodon, and federated, like this. is the new Fido?

Also I have deets re: VV's sendoff DM if you want me to share.