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