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In fairness, the toaster deserved it

Before anyone gets too heated a poptart:

While I appreciate a small post being thrown on hackernews, this is just me free speculating, not a policy or project.

Like anyone else dealing with hard drives, the archive has seen that price rise dramatically this last 18 months. It is not quite dire. A whole range of solutions are being sought out and researched. I sometimes throw out a little signal here and there to find out if donating drives to a non profit makes sense.

But I'm not sure a debate on here is going to shift the needle to the situation.

I'm the guy in the shirt!

There's a bad setting on my virtual host. I'm in conversation with the support team about getting it tuned up.

Hurrah!

Well, ASCII is a different box than textfiles.com. I suppose I could host the site on that box, but I have a rule with the original textfiles.com that no scripts are being run on it, hence less chance of hacking, etc. Someday I'll figure out the exact right setting for ASCII to not do this when a few thousand people hit it, but honestly, it is very hard to care.

Yes, I've taken a long walk and spoken with my team and I'm emotionally fine with the situation.

Classics never go out of style.

He just really, really, really committed himself.

I don't have to do anything.

Shout out to everyone in this thread who seem unable to understand a club might have three unrelated acts on, so each performance is called a "concert" under this collection. Aadam and the crew are focused on making each performance a separate entity instead of grouping them up. Substitute "performance" for "concert" if it helps.

Carry on.

Why mess with perfection?

Badlibrarian, you had a very fun run.

You got to be 30% correct with Internet Archive criticism and enjoy unfettered, sometimes problematic commentary with little pushback.

Maybe you should take what your version of the W is.

The assumptions are still pretty zesty, now you just made them longer.

There was a lot of renovation. One day they fired up the pipe organ (which still works) inside the building as well as the servers and the transformer for the street blew up. That was a legendary day.

We've had showdowns with lawyers, governments, hackers and spammers, but I'm not sure how we'll stand up against perception.

Fridays at about 1pm, we give tours.

It's an AI-generated article. It's going to be pretty terrible.

This seems like a lot of zesty made-up assumptions.

And a lot of non-profits would be very very surprised to hear that once you cross the threshold of $9,999,999 costs, you are a business.

Here's some photos I took a long time ago.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/textfiles/albums/7215763372220...

Show me the faster wayback machine we are competing against.

It is on my desk to fix this soon.

They absolutely are.

We absolutely lap them with many, many more petabytes of material. But archive.today is also not doing speculative or multiple scheduled captures of the amount of sites that archive.org is.

What do you want some pictures of?

We've hired a few dozen people over the past couple of years. We think they're pretty talented.

That project gets discussed every once in a while.

There is a fundamental resistance to tape technology that exists to this day as a result of all those troubles.

Not in the way I think you're talking about. The archive has always tried to maintain a situation where the racks could be pushed out of the door or picked up after being somewhere and the individual drives will contain complete versions of the items. We have definitely reached out to people who seem to be doing redundant work and ask them to stop or for permission to remove the redundant item. But that's a pretty curatorial process.

This is the most "here is a glass of orange juice - argue about it" post about my site I can recall.