Thousands of informational government webpages have been taken down so far in the second Trump administration, including on public health, scientific research and LGBTQ rights. Amid this mass erasure of public information, the Internet Archive is racing to save copies of those deleted resources. The San Francisco-based nonprofit operates the Wayback Machine, a popular tool that saves snapshots of websites that may otherwise be lost forever, and it has archived federal government websites at each presidential transition since 2004. While it’s normal for a new administration to overhaul some of its online resources, the Trump administration’s pace of destruction has shocked many archivists. “There have been thousands and thousands of pages removed,” says Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, who notes that even a page about the U.S. Constitution was scrubbed from the White House website.
    • boonhet@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      I never knew this and I’m on a 500mbps plan with gigabit available if needed so this is cool!

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
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          1 day ago

          I’m seeing if I can do the video platforms as they’re bandwidth heavy and I got heaps (unlimited 500/500), but so far the hardest part seems to be to actually get it to upload. Seems like the ArchiveTeam servers are overloaded. If it’s still 0 by morning, I’ll switch to the US government or Telegram as that one seemed to work a tiny bit better.

  • KayLeadfoot@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Love the versioning. Saw minor edits to the “Fork in the Road” landing page over time, including the cleaning up of just plain sloppy typos. They clearly deployed half-cocked, didn’t even run spell-check.