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Comment by bombcar

4 days ago

This is just one of the reasons archiving is so important in the digital era; it's key to keeping people honest.

Yes, Wayback machine/archive.org is one of the best websites on the whole world wide web.

  • I'm unemployed and on a tight budget, and I still give a recurring donation to archive.org

    It's that important.

  • Agreed and that's why there's an incentive to DDoS it and degrade the quality. Are there any p2p backup solutions?

    • There are some various attempts, the problem is reliability - not that they're always up, but how do you trust them? If archive.org shows a page at a date, you presume it is true and correct. If I provide a PDF of a site at a date, you have no reason to believe I didn't modify the content before PDFing it.