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Your statement is incorrect, then and now.

Conspiracy theories are always amusing, but I can assure you there isn't some billionaire sitting with a check in case things go incredibly south. I would tell you that things you are defining is risky are simply steps being taken for a library in the 21st century. Anyone not addressing these issues is going to have a very bad wake up in 5 to 10 years.

We didn't coordinate directly, but when people were telling me that the site was going down and I saw that it was less than 20 GB, I would rate my personal panic at a two out of a scale of 1 to 50. I figured some of the copies we already had would have almost all of it, and then they went ahead and made an easily downloadable version as well. This was hardly a four alarm fire. Happy to hold multiple copies of it going forward.

high-five

You chose two pretty out-there examples to prove the point; I'll leave it to the class to determine why.

Just as a note, you're only getting some of the data that way. The contents of textfiles.com are roughly 2 terabytes of *.textfiles.com endeavors and another 13 terabytes of mirrors and hosting I do.

Don't let the others keep you down. Keep fighting and I'm sure we can take this Jason Scott guy down. I believe in you, and there's many of us.

As people are wildly speculating in this thread (it is Hackernews, after all), I'll just say that yes, more than you can imagine, my provider has been instrumental on the site staying up through a number of challenges and controversies and that number is my number to keep the site there with the features and arrangements I have. Regardless of what people think the Internet is like in 2024, there are vanishingly small places that will host a site like TEXTFILES.COM for very long.

I never forgot, so you could remember.

Sorry it didn't work out, but thank you for trying. I often say that things are rare because life happened, not because of some incompetence or evil. We do our best to preserve and not everything makes it.

My pillow is soft and I sleep well.

You rang?

Shout out to you, my boy

This is Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, by the way. (jscott@archive.org). Knowing how HackerNews is, I am sure this comment will end up buried far beneath the thread.

Hi.

Happy to take them.

Heyyyyy Phil! Great to see you here. - Jason Scott

Brian, never change.

Oh, THAT old thing?

It is literally an advertisement for the Video Game History Foundation. This is their fundraising month and to help people understand the work they do and the importance of saving these artifacts, they are posting a new artifact every day this month.

https://gamehistory.org/donate/

This article was absolutely incredible, and I expect it to land on The Hacker News Community with a dull thud. But huge thanks to bdr for highlighting it.

Get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off

All hail

I showed up and got an excellent pushback.

Complaining about the answers gotten is always a surefire way to acquire more quality ones.

So, the internet archive scans an average of 3,500 books a day, so hopefully we will get to it.

Don't worry, I'll emotionally recover.

Hear me, and hear me clear:

Fuck any proprietary format trying to own the ability to recover history.

TEXTFILES.COM is http only - your reading material needs are assured.