Do you guys ever use the Internet Archive for anything? I agree that they’re doing a great job archiving things, but realistically, through time most of things which happened have been forgotten.
I use the Wikipedia like once a week to look something up, but I only ever used the Internet Archive to look at a early version of my own website. But never for anything else. But perhaps I’m missing out on something?
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They’ve got a lot of old manuals scanned in, so I use it to reference those a lot.
I’ve been experimenting with trying to reverse engineer Overwatch 1. I was able to find lots of builds through Internet Archive when i was starting
Constantly. And not just Wayback Machine. That’s probably the smaller portion completed to the obscure books, especially non-English archives
@[email protected] Yep, I stumble upon dead links all the time, and if it’s something that seems interesting I try to look it up thru internet archive
(And if it’s a website that existed for a long time, it usually shows up)
I use it for light novels like Overlord and Mushoku Tensei
A lot of difficult to find movies are on there . That’s what I use it for.
Sure. Every few weeks I absolutely need it. Most of the times it’s the wayback machine, looking up stuff that vanished from the internet. Or what’s been on my homepage two years ago. Or what a company offered last year to compare it to the current price. Occasionally I download some old DOS games, manuals, books or audio files.
And I sometimes use the wayback machine to bypass paywalls.
I use the wayback machine a lot. The actual archive less often, but I’ve definitely used it to look up things that are otherwise hard to find.
through time
Dude, you’re saying this as though the internet has been around for millennia. And as if you’ve never been to / heard of a library.
I’ve downloaded a ton of music videos to create my own self-hosted MTV station. I’ve downloaded music and books. I’ve used it to view non-paywalled (NYT) articles shared on Lemmy. I live in Philadelphia so I’ve used it to look up the earliest version of the “yellow pages” or “white pages” from the 1800s. I’ve searched for the videos they used to show us in elementary school on 16mm - stuff about the expansion of the USA, the national parks, history of my state or city, etc. I’ve used it to look up tv commercials from the 1980s for a bit of nostalgia and older tv shows that people have uploaded from their personal VHS collection. Some people just upload personal stuff that’s entirely mundane but voyeuristically interesting. And I’m certain I haven’t even scratched the surface of what’s on there.
Bypassing paywalled articles.
There’s old movies there, too.
I’ve used it a few times to verify what was on government websites on certain dates.
It’s neat for getting around the paywall of some online articles. Although Firefox reader mode usually does the trick already.
Well. I found free downloadable versions of the Mad Max novels there. So that’s kewl. Also a good source for ebooks, if I don’t feel like reading words.
Well. I found free downloadable versions of the Mad Max novels there. So that’s kewl. Also a good source for ebooks, if I don’t feel like reading words.
Lots of sites and companies that have gone out is business can still be found there when I need info they published in the past.
