It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
    39·
    5 months ago

    Fuck.

    I really hope someone gets hold of the data and shares it on p2p or otherwise. If all this data is deleted it would be equivalent to nuking pyramids or burning Picasso paintings.

    • menemen@lemmy.ml
      31·
      5 months ago

      Honestly, I’d say it would be much much worse than your examples. It would be erasing parts of history itself.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
        13·
        5 months ago

        Fuck yes, we need to get our hands on this stuff for fucks sake. I have shit there I don’t even know I need yet

        Can someone fucking near get their ass there and do a legendary copy paste operation on a massive scale

      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
        9·
        5 months ago

        Exactly. Losing Internet and digital history would create another dark ages for future historians. Everything we’ve done would just be gone.

        If I had more money than humanly usable I would create a project that transcribes wikipedia or whatever onto stone/metal plates so it’s not forgotten.

    • refalo
      91·
      5 months ago

      Good luck, every day more than 1PB is uploaded to IA.

    • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      That’s one of the reasons why uploads to the Archive have torrents.

      Now if they’d just fix the damn tracker…