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The internet archive is becoming an alternative good internet. It has a web archive, film archive, software archive, media archive... and now research papers archive. That is the internet as a giant library as we dreamed in early 90's.

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Way too centralized (Centranet?), but it is very nice for now. It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.

I'm sure they'd be willing to decentralize it if there was a good way to do that. Maybe this can be done with something like IPFS [0].

[0] https://ipfs.io/

Yes, they have very good intentions right now, but what if the leader gets hit by a bus.

Presumably it would be be acquired, paywalled, and monetized by a private equity firm (or some suitably hostile intellectual property rightsholder organization) before going bankrupt and shutting down for good.

Thanks for an incredible journey.

Good thing is Internet Archive is a nonprofit, so cannot be acquired.

Wikipedia is a not for profit and it's still been acquired, just by people who are insane instead of rich.

Until everyone can own their own copy and moderate it the dream of an open network is just that: a dream.

The amount of data is absolutely insane.

Already exists, guys. You're late to the party.

https://dweb.archive.org/archive.html?identifier=home

The Internet Archive already stores some big public domain data sets in IPFS/Filecoin: Prelinger Films & Librivox audiobooks. They've been partnering with Protocol Labs for 5 years. https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/22/what-information-should-...

> It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.

The irony here is that the only second full copy of the Internet Archive is actually hosted at the library of Alexandria.

Source: Digital Amnesia Documentary [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs

Exactly. I encourage everyone to become a digital hoarder yourself. See a cool blog post? Assume it will be GONE in 5-10 years. So make a backup PDF copy, and throw it in dropbox. In 5-10 years if you re-encounter that page, and the internet archive is missing the page, you'll be delighted to find it in your own archive, and you can be the one who restores that information to the world.

Is it easy to have a local copy?

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