alt.hn

4/28/2026 at 7:52:42 PM

200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record

 https://www.savethearchive.com/journalists/

by doener

4/29/2026 at 9:25:41 AM

The internet archive is doing god's work. It's up there with Wikipedia as a resource. Copyright needs a massive overhaul, especially with the written word, and post death. No one should inherit copyright or ownership on the owners death.

by ktallett

4/30/2026 at 6:49:40 AM

The saying "the internet never forgets" turned out to be just wrong.

Having some sites archived is often immensely useful when digging around.

by rightbyte

4/29/2026 at 3:33:45 PM

Archive.today took the problem into their own hands. I have mad respect for them.

by Cider9986

4/29/2026 at 1:57:16 PM

I'm not a journalist, but I "sign" here on HN with my upvote and a comment.

by kaboomshebang

4/30/2026 at 9:42:34 PM

Apparently this is also the only way to recover a youtube playlist if you accidentally click delete instead of edit.

at least after spending a half hour researching how to recover one - everyone says find the url, go to the internet archive and hope.

Youtube has terrible ux for edit playlist (one desktop anyway)

Luckliy I had a google takeout from not too long ago, and I have been using the YT music much less, so the loss was not as devastating.

by stevenicr

4/30/2026 at 8:07:15 AM

The Internet Archive could block (or add a nag wall) all IP addresses from the NY Times to give the journalist and workers there how it feels to be blocked. I guess that would be against IA’s mission “Universal Access To All Knowledge”

by sanbor

4/30/2026 at 4:29:00 AM

> This letter is coming at a time where many major media outlets are questioning whether to allow the Wayback Machine to continue to preserve journalism.

Questioning whether to allow? Hmm. I didn't know media outlets we're judge and jury...

by trinsic2

4/30/2026 at 1:54:10 AM

What a pity that some major news publishers have taken to blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

by foresto