misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agoThe Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattackswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1511arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1510arrow-down1external-linkThe Wayback Machine is back as a read-only service after cyberattackswww.theverge.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareargh_another_username@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·1 month agoOk, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
minus-squareTheLugal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 month agoTo you as a user it’s readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.
minus-squareantonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoYou can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as ‘writing’ to the database.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNot just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving
Ok, serious question. Why is it normally read/write? I’ve always treated it as being read only.
To you as a user it’s readonly. To the thousands that submits urls for archival it is readwrite.
You can (well, could) put in any live URL there and IA would take a snapshot of the current page on your request. They also actively crawl the web and take new snapshots on their own. All of that counts as ‘writing’ to the database.
Not just websites. Basically any digital media. From PDFs, book scans, manuals, floppy disks, CDs, basically anything even remotely worth archiving