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fromTechCrunch
2 weeks ago

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plugin designed to fix the internet's broken links problem | TechCrunch

"Link rot" is the unfortunate phenomenon whereby online articles become populated by broken links - URLs that once led to active pages but now result in error messages or dead ends. A Pew Research study from 2024 showed that nearly 40% of links that existed in 2013 were no longer active. Such "digital decay" occurs across a broad diversity of webpages, from news and government sites to Wikipedia pages to tweets.
Web development
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fromArs Technica
3 months ago
Books

Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

Internet Archive survived damaging copyright battles but lost over 500,000 Open Library books while continuing web archiving and pursuing new initiatives.
fromFuncheap
5 months ago
SF music

Del Sol Quartet "The Vast Blue We" Live at Internet Archive (SF)

Del Sol Quartet and Internet Archive present The Vast Blue We, a musical celebration marking the Wayback Machine's archive of one trillion web pages.
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fromNieman Lab
4 months ago

The Wayback Machine's snapshots of news homepages plummet after a "breakdown" in archiving projects

The Kyiv Post, one of Ukraine's leading English-language news outlets, covered the story, but no public record of its homepage exists in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for that day. A homepage snapshot - a viewable version of a page captured by the Wayback Machine's crawlers - does not appear until September 8, more than 24 hours after the attack.
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