Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

https://lemmus.org/post/20899227

I feel like this has been one of my soapbox things for a while now, but

Americans, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia stand as two of the biggest contributions to human knowledge preservation in all of history. To lose either would be a huge backslide for us as a civilization, and it never really seemed like a genuine threat until recent events over there.

I know there’s a lot of other shit going on right now, but you must do what you can to ensure both are able to continue their work.

I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.

A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.

Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again

Awesome. Thank you for the tips!