I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked

Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by pilsetnieks on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @08:50PM (#15024097)

Considering the topic of discussion, how sure can you be that archive.is will still be around in a year? Three years? Ten?

As much as I tried, all I could find about it is that it's run by one guy in Czech Republic who's paying $2000/month out of pocket for hosting, and apparently dislikes Finland.

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by exikyut on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @11:24PM (#15024731)

It's actually worse - http://blog.archive.is/post/151510917631/how-do-you-guys-kee... says it's $4k/mo.

http://archive.is/robots.txt doesn't seem too bad, it looks like you could slowly inhale everything... in theory. There are no sitemaps (they're there, but empty placeholders); you have to know the site name to be able to get a workable list.

The author hasn't ruled out/blocked archiving the snapshots, but apparently it's... big. http://blog.archive.is/post/154930531126/if-someone-was-will...

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Re:I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of ... by cooper12 on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:07PM (#15030857)

I think http://www.webcitation.org/ might be better in that regard since it's a consortium of "editors, publishers, libraries". See "How can I be assured that archived material remains accessible and that webcitation.org doesn't disappear in the future?" in their FAQ (http://www.webcitation.org/faq). Although from my perspective it seems to be more geared towards academic use.

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