archive.org feels like an irreplaceable treasure, the Wayback Machine alone is a time capsule of our digital history.
I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don't worry much about their financial stability. I'm more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there's a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can't continue to play the role it does.
I donate to them monthly and know a lot of other people do as well, so I don't worry much about their financial stability. I'm more worried about external pressures taking content down. I hope the data is backed up six ways to sunday, and that somewhere there's a plan to make it all accessible if Internet Archive can't continue to play the role it does.