After its website was crippled for nearly a month by a cyberattack, the Internet Archive announced on Monday that it had restored one of its most valuable services—the Save Page Now feature that allows users to add copies of webpages to the organization’s digital library.

In a social media post, the Internet Archive said web pages that users had attempted to save since October 9 are beginning to be archived now, although it did not provide an estimate for when the process would be completed. So, if you were worried that all of that election coverage was in danger of disappearing, the Archive says it’s handling the backlog. And if you stopped archiving because it was down, get back to work.

The organization had been operating its collection in read-only mode since October 21 as it steadily worked to restore services.

Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive is a nonprofit based in San Francisco that provides access to historic web pages, digitized books, and a variety of other media that it has uploaded through its partnerships with hundreds of physical libraries and other partners.

Its unparalleled collection currently contains 835 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts, 15 million audio recordings, 10.6 million videos, 4.8 million images, and 1 million software programs.

  • Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    They’ve also restored the ability to play audio files, like archived old podcasts and stuff. Which is nice.

    Still, fuck the people that randomly decided to harm Internet Archive. It was really on the threat of being a digitalized Burning of Alexandria moment.

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      2 months ago

      It surely wasn’t random. There’s people out there who don’t want you to have anything for free