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Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-the-greatest-things-ever-built dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "The San Francisco building housing the Internet Archive, and its popular Wayback Machine, has suffered a serious fire. While no archived data was destroyed, materials awaiting archival were. Rebuilding will be a major undertaking, and the group is soliciting donations."

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  1. Fire insurance by sanjosanjo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not that they don't deserve donations, but why do they need to solicit for funds for this purpose? Wouldn't fire insurance cover the losses?

  2. Re:Why is the archive worth preserving? by Anrego · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Somewhat off topic, but unfortunately the fact that a current domain owner can use robots.txt to prevent the display of information from previous owners of the domain is a frustrating hindrance to it's use by fan/community sites.

    The classic go to example is jumptheshark.com. TV guide bought it, destroyed it, and put up a robots.txt that prevents using archive.org to view the old (and interesting) community provided content.

  3. Donations by ArcadeMan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FYI, they also accept donations in Bitcoins.

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