It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves.
Last capture was July 2023. web.archive.org/web/20230601000000*/bash.org
1984@lemmy.today 3 months ago
The internet archive is becoming one of the most valuable sites on the web, specially to avoid paywalled corpo pages.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And people are abusing the fuck out of it by uploading tons of copyrighted movies. No one seems to be policing it either. I’m very worried that its days are numbered.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The Internet has special status that gives it protections. What might kill it is the erosion of support for public libraries and such. The advancement of media companies’ attempt to have absolute control over everything they release, by binding it into their own services.
1984@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Yeah probably. It’s the ordinary playbook of allowing one site to become extreamly popular so it’s much easier to monitor users and shut down if needed.
uis@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Imagine how many copyrighted books are in IRL libraries. Now imagine that IRL libraries can copy any book in any amount. Congrats, now you imagined what libraries in Europe can do.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 3 months ago
What will we do when the internet archive goes down
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
thats okay, someone will have put all the information on an impossible to search for or browse discord server, that’ll surely last forever. /s
1984@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Join the crowd on tik tok I guess
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s the Internet archive archive. It’s being funded by all the excess donations that archive.org themselves can’t find a way to spend.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Anyone who archives data so it wouldn’t be lost is MVP