On: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and N...

[SubiculumCode]

The solution to link rot (and to privacy invasion) is to download the internet.

[andai → SubiculumCode]

Could you please clarify?

[mcraiha → andai]

http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-06-06

[SubiculumCode → andai]

1. Download the internets. 2. git the diffs.

Privacy comes because if everyone has the internet in their local cache (lol), then external servers can't say what YOU are REALLY looking at.

[kronos29296 → SubiculumCode]

Best of luck trying to scale git. Microsoft took 3 years and they didn't add Office and Windows to it. And they nearly rewrote their own version of git.

[Jtsummers → kronos29296]

IPFS seems to work effectively for storing versions of files. The downside is, as I mentioned in another post, that it's not permanent. Someone has to pin it or it'll disappear. But it doesn't require anything as complicated to use today as trying to modify git to do something it wasn't meant for.

[nebabyte → kronos29296]

Ah yes, that step will definitely be the bottleneck

[SubiculumCode → kronos29296]

lets stick to concept for now, eh?

[observation → andai]

A few organizations have a text copy of the web. They could potentially offer a service like "WWW in the year 20XX".

[zokier → andai]

Make local mirrors of any content you care.

[andai → zokier]

Could you recommend any software for mirroring websites?

I've been using scdl and ytdl lately to backup some SoundCloud stuff since it looks like their future is very uncertain.

[aw3c2 → andai]

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosystem