After 32 years, one of the ’Net’s oldest software archives is shutting down
arstechnica.com
Hobbes OS/2 Archive: "As of April 15th, 2024, this site will no longer exist."
  • MudMan@kbin.social
    10·
    10 months ago

    Well, it’s not the lawsuit that would trigger it, it’s the outcome of it. So yes.

    Yes on the other things, too. I can’t imagine they would be opposed to working with alternatives to provide Wayback Machine fallbacks.

    • DdCno1@kbin.social
      3·
      10 months ago

      The Wayback Machine in particular is one of the greatest treasures of the Internet. An absolutely invaluable tool and so far entirely irreplaceable.

      • MudMan@kbin.social
        1·
        10 months ago

        Honestly, it should be a public resource.

        I mean, public libraries and archives being a mandatory requirement for copyright enforcement and publishing records is a thing, and the Wayback Machine proves it’s technologically feasible to approximate it for the Internet, so…