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The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

I mean how else would they archive web sites or content?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I’ve always thought they were a crawler.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

They do some crawling themselves, but Archive Team (a third party group) does a lot of web archiving as well.

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