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The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (www.theverge.com)
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[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.

[–] TheLugal@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

To you as a user it's readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as 'writing' to the database.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, but I didn't mention that because it's not a part of the "Wayback Machine", it's just the general "Internet Archive" business of archiving media, which is for now still completely unavailable. (I've uploaded dozens of public-domain books there myself, and I'm really missing it...)