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The Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as 'writing' to the database.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yep, but I didn't mention that because it's not a part of the "Wayback Machine", it's just the general "Internet Archive" business of archiving media, which is for now still completely unavailable. (I've uploaded dozens of public-domain books there myself, and I'm really missing it...)