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?

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    6 months ago

    It’s a trove of primary source material for historians. Even presuming you don’t personally use it yourself it’s a crucial archive of human history that all will benefit from

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, I used it extensively for researching for college papers. They had full newspapers from 100 years ago that I could find the exact advertisement for a concert of a little known composer. Plus there were all sorts of obscure books and old movies that were fantastic to track down. I was able to write a paper in a couple of days that would have taken months of inner library loans otherwise.

    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      Yea, without an archive the internet is probably the least permanent form of media we’ve invented so far