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Re:Wayback Machine was down by jarfil on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @10:25PM (#22681449)
The Internet Archive just announced a no-waitlist book lending due to COVID-19, I'd guess their servers might not be too happy about the inrush of users.

http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-eme...

Re:Wayback Machine was down by mirimir on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:16AM (#22681899)
Right, and https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary is up and responsive.

So I'm guessing that they've shifted resources.