Wayback Machine/Internet Archive moving to Canada

[Bobster747]

This just in:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/06/internet-archive-canada-and-national-security-letter-in-the-news-roundup/

The internet archive site The Wayback Machine has also announced it’s moving its operations to Canada in the wake of Trump’s election.

Also: On Saturday, dozens of people gathered at the University of Toronto for a “guerrilla archiving event” aimed at copying and storing the climate data outside the United States.

Im thinking of volunteering my time to help the IA copy/move the archive, at a minimum donate some cash, b/c Ive found it useful as well.

-Bob

[Janet]

Where else can I find all the crappy websites I made back in the dotcom days. gotta preserve that kind of history!

[Bobster747]

Yes. The Archive has:

• Old radio shows eg. Dragnet, “The Werewolf”, Dragnet the 50's radio show : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Collections of running console games and old PC games, hundreds, Old School Emulation
  MS-DOS Games, Historical Software, Classic PC Games. Atari console games that run “ibn-rwoser”.
• Copies of live recorded bands from clubs and venues.

I never realized.

[Daniel_DeGagne]

Yeah I heard a lot of groups are moving there archives out of the US. Good idea even without Trump. That stuff needs to kept out of US control.
I’m not sure what I can do to help besides money. I know my web host files are stored in Toronto and I know a guy is a network admin at a hosting site in Iceland. Probably now a few others now that I think about it. Good old EVE. But unless anyone here has some direct connections to people who still need help