Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet

>>resolu+(OP)
archive.today or archive.is - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today

Help:Using archive.today - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_archive.today

archive.today - FAQ : https://archive.md/faq

archive.today - wiki : https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Archive.today

Archive Team wiki : https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

archive.today - Blog : https://blog.archive.today/

  archive.today

  archive.ph

  archive.is

  archive.li

  archive.vn

  archive.fo

  archive.md

  archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion

Launched May 16, 2012; 11 years ago

>>ttctci+V3
>I've had infrequently occurring arcane cert/SSL issues <> Same error page as https://1.1.1.7/ ?

captcha is CF

Related: Does Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019)

HN Discussion (209-comments 2023-08-02) >>36970702

I just snapshot this page for a test : https://archive.is/MUhAP = >>37009598

Edit of formatting for readability.

>>resolu+(OP)
Why Archive.today

HN Readers, Commentators and Story Submitters are aware of the FAQ; 'Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. : https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Which means for the Publishers of pay-walled sites to be featured on HN,

which is a prime site for garnering potential paying new prospects and to replace natural attrition of subscribers.

Some Publishers see this as a positive.. free samples, a minor amount of the Publications full output,

much like a paid agent in a supermarket giving out cheese and/or spiced meat on a stick etc, to encourage new users.

Other Publishers see this as mice nibbling at their cheese.

I use archive.is because almost of the Articles submitted to HN are already archived, so it is a simple copy and past.

archive.is does Not require java to read or to archive an Article,

it is fast and the archiving scripts work on most sites.

>>resolu+(OP)
> Donations these days are via Liberapay, an obscure French non-profit organization, and YC-backed startup BuyMeACoffee.

I am not sure why Liberapay is qualified as 'obscure'. Their website's "legal" page [0] clearly identifies the organization and its legal representative, while providing contact details. The status of the non-profit organization can be verified in the French government's website [1].

[0]: https://en.liberapay.com/about/legal [1]: https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-deta... - in French

>>resolu+(OP)
I've also been intrigued about the owner of archive.is and have looked in to it a couple of times but what I managed to find is pretty much all the same stuff as mentioned here.

One interesting thing I'd like to mention are these tweets[1] by archive.is when he was supposedly questioned for something at the finnish - russian border and as a result he blocked the entire site in Finland, although later he lifted the block. I also couldn't find any information about the "Russia vs. http://archive.org case" he mentions in the tweet.

1: https://archive.is/Pum1p

>>resolu+(OP)
With archive.today, sometimes IP addresses may stop working. The following ones appear to be still working.

    x=23.137.248.133 # NL
    x=41.77.143.21 # GB
    x=51.38.69.52 # GB
    x=51.79.250.183 # SG
    x=79.133.51.130 # DE
    x=89.253.237.217 # RU
    x=90.156.209.190 # RU
    x=90.156.209.190 # RU
    x=91.193.43.144 # NL
    x=94.140.114.194 # LV
    x=130.0.232.208 # UA
    x=139.99.171.251 # AU
    x=139.99.89.157 # SG
    x=178.17.174.208 # MD
    x=178.250.243.66 # RU
    x=185.101.35.175 # NO
    x=185.125.168.154  # NO
    x=188.143.233.210 # RU
    x=192.124.216.250 # RU
    x=192.210.214.166 # US
    x=193.148.248.205 # NL
    x=193.233.203.196 # MD
    x=217.197.116.88 # RU

To test, something like

   printf 'GET /timemap/example.com HTTP/1.0\r\nhost: archive.is\r\nconnection: close\r\n\r\n'|openssl s_client -connect $x:443 -ign_eof

   echo $x archive.is >> /etc/hosts
   curl -0A "" https://archive.is/timemap/example.com

>>resolu+(OP)
>

> Github ... account called “volth” ... contributed ... to NixOS

>

Volth maintained NixOS Perl subsystem:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commits/master?after=1c72dc...

>

> The obvious denispetrov.com ... programmer ... a New Yorker ... end of a 25-year career and the blog dries up entirely in 2011, so it doesn’t match the place or time

>

A Perl programmer: http://web.archive.org/web/20050208095206/http://www.denispe...

Archive.is started in 2012, just after retirement, why these do not match?

>>Stagna+1C
Well, formally, there is a prosecutor office or court decision behind every new block of Russian Censorship Agency, which then merely implements it (and demands the services to remove information or get blocked), but even they stopped pretending they are not in control of rubber-stamping the papers.

https://reestr.rublacklist.net/en/?page=12&q=archive.org

You can see the fine collection of everything from The Anarchist Cookbook to le ironic nasheed remixes, and from exposures of Astral Jews to Alex Jones there:

https://archive.org/details/geo_restricted?tab=collection

>>kmoser+nq1
Wikipedia - Link Rot : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot

Link Rot (link death, Link Breaking, or Reference Rot) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot

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Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet