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| The Internet Archive needs an Internet Archive Archive. |
The Internet Archive is one of the most important websites (and digital library) in the world. It was created in 1996 by Brewster Kahle. It provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates for a free and open Internet. As of September 5, 2024, the Internet Archive held more than 42.1 million print materials, 13 million videos, 1.2 million software programs, 14 million audio files, 5 million images, 272,660 concerts, and over 866 billion web pages in its Wayback Machine. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge".
Around early October, the Internet Archive suffered denial-of-service attacks and a security breach. A "pro-Palestinian" hacker organization called SN_BLACKMETA claimed responsibility for the hacking of account details and DDoS attacks, stating they did it because the website is based in the United States. They (or someone else) posted a video claiming to be them, but it was weird, it is spoken in Russian, the Arabic subtitles is rendered incorrectly (left to right, Arabic is written right to left) and wtf does the internet archive have to do with anything?
These dudes are not hackers, they're terrorists. It's quite disturbing how a bunch of assholes can on a whim destroy a modern equivalent of the Library of Alexandria. Who would be interested in deleting things? Or should I ask, Who would be interested in rewriting history? The answer is; those who hate the truth and the world. This is the digital equivalent to vandalizing and threatening to burn down a real library. It takes a special kind of scumbag. And the Archive is not just any library, but one of the only few libraries containing almost all the history of the world itself. That's why I said, it's the Library of Alexandria in digital form.
Like I said before, the people claiming responsibility are not hackers, but cyber-terrorists. A traditional hacker would not do something like this. No decent hacker or computer expert should ever target such a non-profit service whose purpose is nothing but to serve the community. Because attacking a free-access library is the lowest of the low. And this stinks of politics.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but with the recent events of Diddy getting arrested, American celebrities nuking their own Twitter/Social Media accounts, the U.S. Presidential election coming up (a month before the election), and now 'hackers' are nuking the internet archive. I highly doubt this is all coincidental. With the Internet Archive, people can just look up what celebrities posted in the past. This was most likely done in a effort to control information and history. Can't fact-check the fact checkers if there is no trustworthy independent historical archive. I think the reason this happens is similar to the real reason YouTube turned off dislikes. Politicians don't want you to look at their old quotes etc. etc.
The United States as always been a corrupted country, it's one of the most corrupted nations in the world. So, it wouldn't surprise me if a three-letter agency did this.
The only people who want to get rid of the internet archive are the type of people who want us to not find out something.*cough* Epstein *cough* My biggest fear is them adding false information into the archive. So, I urge as many as possible to get into Data Hoarding. The Archive Team (a group of data hoarders) did create a back-up, called "internetarchive.bak" but it was sadly shutdown. The internet is NOT forever as some might say. Collect what you can or collect what you need.
The Internet Archive is one of those things you didn't realize you cared about .. until you suddenly can't access it anymore.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Article author: ร Firestone
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