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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by card_zero on Sunday October 20, 2024 @11:57PM (#41900551)
Internet archive allows full text search of books, newspapers, etc.. Or anyway it did, before being breached.
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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by TZubiri on Monday October 21, 2024 @01:36PM (#41906380)
It does transcribe books (through imperfect OCR) so I guess that's possible. Never relied on it as I search by title and author.

But anyways not the case for the wayback product which is the unique core to IA.

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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by card_zero on Monday October 21, 2024 @03:07PM (#41907315)
That's not unique, not a product, and not the part I use most.

Well, OK, maybe other webpage archives don't work as well, I haven't tried them, but there are others. And they're newer, so don't have such extensive historical pages.

Large numbers of Wikipedia references (which relied on IA to prevent link rot) must be completely broken now.

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