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?
i don’t know why but my particular browsing habits lead me to a lot of defunct websites so yea
A long time ago I was repairing my dad’s camera, I found an article describing the exact fault & a link to how to fix it, but the link was dead.
Used the wayback machine to find a text only copy of the fix (no pictures) which was enough.
Was immensely proud that someone had had the idea to invent the IA & have been recommending it ever since.
I’ve used it for old cookbooks.
Sometimes, rarely. Saved my ass once or twice!
Bypassing paywalled articles.
There’s old movies there, too.
