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The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online (arstechnica.com)
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Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Maybe it’s time to federate the IA.

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 month ago (21 children)

One of the rare use cases of a blockchain actually being useful. A federated internet archive that uses a blockchain to validate that the saved data has not been altered by a malicious actor trying to tamper with proofs

That would be really cool but horribly inefficient because of the sheer amount of storage required

[–] RedStrider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

isn't this what ipfs is?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds like BitTorrent, too

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