Hacker News with Generative AI: Web Archives

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history (antirez.com)
By multiple accounts, the web is losing pieces: every year a fraction of old web pages disappear, lost forever.

Web Archives, Data Loss

301 points by freeatnet 20 days ago | 213 comments

Computer History Resources (landley.net)
This is a bunch of links to computer history pages, research for a book I'm writing. I've provided links to all the originals, as well as local mirrors because I've gotten sick of links going down a year or so after I bookmark them. (I'm sorting through my bookmark list in my copious free time and finding all these dead links from 1998, and it's annoying because some of these were GOOD. Even CNN culls its archives. Sigh...)

Computer History, Web Archives, Internet History, Links

20 points by memalign 93 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org? (ycombinator.com)
I recently bought the expired domain of a niche interest site because the previous owner was determined to let it die and did not want to put any effort in it anymore.

Web Development, Domain Names, Web Archives, Internet History

90 points by rrr_oh_man 126 days ago | 50 comments

A Collection of Kaleidoscope Schemes, Sourced from the WayBack Machine. (hryjksn.com)
A collection of Kaleidoscope Schemes, sourced from the WayBack Machine.

Web Design, Programming, Color Schemes, Web Archives

29 points by bookofjoe 129 days ago | 10 comments

Tell HN: The Wayback Machine is up, in read-only mode (ycombinator.com)
The https://web.archive.org/ service is up again in "(provisional, read-only) service".

Web Archives, Internet, Technology, Online Services

89 points by jfil 171 days ago | 22 comments

New Feature Alert: Access Archived Webpages Directly Through Google Search (archive.org)
In a significant step forward for digital preservation, Google Search is now making it easier than ever to access the past. Starting today, users everywhere can view archived versions of webpages directly through Google Search, with a simple link to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Search, Web Archives, Digital Preservation, Internet History

91 points by xnx 206 days ago | 17 comments

Wayback Machine Is Down (archive.org)

Web Archives, Downtime, Technology

24 points by benrapscallion 272 days ago | 13 comments

Let Readers Read (archive.org)

Digital Preservation, Web Archives, Libraries

195 points by mdp2021 292 days ago | 54 comments

WARC-GPT: An open-source tool for exploring web archives using AI (law.harvard.edu)