A. Rivera1d ago

> As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

It is a nightmare for #librarians too, but as for news media and journalists, doing this is just cutting their noses to spite their faces.

#WaybackMachine #preservation #news #media #history #archives #tech #Internet

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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@bloodravenlib I recommend (have for awhile) that any/every one spin their own copy of whatever they will need from the internet. There are some amazing tools out there (especially if you're not American (we're block access via tariff & trade barriers by President Jesus Hitler). Examples:
https://kiwix.org/en/
What I've done:
https://treemagic.org/Resilience/Resilience/Resilient-Environment-%28Case-Study%29/
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Kiwix is a nonprofit organisation making free knowledge accessible where the Internet is not. We create and support open technologies that bring the world’s knowledge Offline via our own open-source software dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content, and more…

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