A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail of Western Americana’

Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by valarauca1 on Friday October 16, 2015 @12:47PM (#10400513)

You tell archive.org how often to archive a URL. So its not really up to their volunteers but the general population.

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 16, 2015 @01:40PM (#10400840)

There's a really bad problem with archive.org - that they retroactively apply robots.txt files. Simple:

    User-Agent: *
    Disallow: /

And poof, here goes history. Guess how many companies care?

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by dragonwriter on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:26PM (#10401793)

> Guess how many companies care?

Many. But, more in the way of actively and enthusiastically supporting the ability to wipe the archive this way than, you know, being concerned that it is a problem.

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by stevewilhelm on Friday October 16, 2015 @12:55PM (#10400572)

What are the odds that archive.org will be around in 137 years?

The best bet would be the Library of Congress.

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 16, 2015 @01:41PM (#10400850)

Assuming there will be a technological civilization in 137 years, I give it more than 50% that archive.org will be present in some form directly descendent from the archive.org of today.

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by Nicholas_C on Friday October 16, 2015 @01:52PM (#10400936)

Why 50%?

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Re:A $2 photo from a California junk shop is the ‘holy grail... by TeMPOraL on Friday October 16, 2015 @02:02PM (#10400995)

Because I don't feel very confident in the result, I just feel it's more likely than not.

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