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Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by coldpie on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @08:57AM (#26315329)
I picked a random article from my browser's history, linked below. Just loading the snapshot year pages took about 10 seconds, then the snapshot hover took another 10 seconds. Finally, fully loading the snapshot page took about 50 seconds. So that's roughly 90 seconds to go from inserting a URL into the search bar and actually having the rendered page. Not unacceptable, but certainly slow by modern standards.

http://web.archive.org/web/20120801000000*/http://blogs.msdn...

Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by carapace on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:49PM (#26319635)
90s is better than ∞ (infinity) which is what it would be if the Archive didn't exist, eh?
Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by coldpie on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:33AM (#26328051)
The original comment was "the Archive is painfully slow", the reply to that was "for me it's always quite fast", so I gave it some actual hard data explaining that 90s is in fact quite slow and maybe even painfully so in 2021. I have absolutely no idea how you got from that discussion to a hypothetical where the Archive doesn't exist. Obviously 90s is better than it not existing. I even said in my comment that it was not unacceptable.

Why did you even make this comment?

Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by carapace on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:00PM (#26331166)
> Why did you even make this comment?

I find it crass to gripe about Archive being slow. It's still much better than nothing. If folks want it to be faster than can donate rather than gripe, eh?

Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by coldpie on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:36AM (#26343712)
I wasn't griping, I was responding to someone saying they had no speed issues. I donate $5/mo and have done for years, thanks for asking.
Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by carapace on Friday March 05, 2021 @09:57AM (#26357483)
Not you, kilroy123.

Good for you. Seriously (no joke, no sarcasm.) Good for you, that's awesome. (And yeah, that was the obvious question: "Have you tried giving them money?" but I wasn't feeling quite that salty.)

Well met. Sorry for being a grouch.

Re:Internet Archive Infrastructure by beckman466 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:44PM (#26334200)
Completely agree. It’s not like there’s alternatives to Archive.org available.