The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK experiment has come to a close a number of years ago.
Much was learned in the process, and many thanks are given to the dozens of people who donated time, space and coding efforts to make the system work as long as it did. A number of useful facts and observations came from the project.
The Internet Archive continues to explore methods and code to decentralize the collection, to have a mirror running in various ways - these include IPFS, FileCoin, and others. The INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK project also added general mirroring and tracking code to a number of projects that are still in use.
IA called this their Postmortem, but it sounds... intentionally opaque. Also, I'm not sure if this website is affiliated with archive.org, since they say at the bottom of their homepage:
Archive Team is in no way affiliated with the fine folks at ARCHIVE.ORG Archive Team can always be reached by e-mail at archiveteam@archiveteam.org or by IRC at the channel #archiveteam (on hackint).
Yeah, it’s a completely [1] separate team (they do run a bunch of archiving projects that end up in the IA / Wayback Machine though). Just wanted to share – it’s sad there isn’t much more info though apart from some code; maybe worth looking into IRC logs?
[1]: On paper, at least; the founder, Jason Scott, seems pretty involved with the IA as well, and I’m not really sure how much the teams intersect.
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IA called this their Postmortem, but it sounds... intentionally opaque. Also, I'm not sure if this website is affiliated with archive.org, since they say at the bottom of their homepage:
Yeah, it’s a completely [1] separate team (they do run a bunch of archiving projects that end up in the IA / Wayback Machine though). Just wanted to share – it’s sad there isn’t much more info though apart from some code; maybe worth looking into IRC logs?
[1]: On paper, at least; the founder, Jason Scott, seems pretty involved with the IA as well, and I’m not really sure how much the teams intersect.
The co-founder, Jason Scott, retired from Archive Team years ago and stays around as a cheeleader and advisor. He is employed by Internet Archive.
Must be a busy guy, fancy seeing him here. (Thanks for all the great work!)