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Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record (www.eff.org)
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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago

A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.

Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again

[–] NormDeplume@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Iirc there's a torrent of it out there, check tpb. I know I grabbed it a while back, I think it was like 50gb