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A comment on Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media. Parent comment

Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by saalweachter on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:15PM (#23783935)
Is the Internet Archive archiving websites for the benefit of the internet users or the benefit of the website authors?
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by zozbot234 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:18PM (#23783975)
Yes.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by wizzwizz4 on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:25AM (#23790374)
Remember when that bank used the Internet Archive as a CDN by mistake? The Internet Archive functioned as a primitive form of version control, allowing them to get some client-side code they'd accidentally lost, but needed again.
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