Comment on Imagine if those works survived
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Such a shame that IT people have only recently adopted multiple backup systems.
Comment on Imagine if those works survived
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Such a shame that IT people have only recently adopted multiple backup systems.
MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That hasnt saved the last 20 years of the net
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I mean… We do have the Wayback Machine
You can see what the Internet was like in 1996:
McDonald’s
GeoCities
Microsoft
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s easy to preserve the stuff that looks the same for everyone. The problem is that the web 2.0 revolution that happened in the late 2000’s would show something different depending on who was logged in, and then the social and mobile revolution of the 2010’s started hiding a lot of content behind logins entirely. So public webcrawlers stopped being able to access the main part of what people considered to be the internet, and tools like the Wayback Machine no longer capture what it was like for the typical users.