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It's also possible to use the WM to instantly archive any given webpage, too, simply go to the address ''[=http://web.archive.org/save/[url_of_the_webpage]=]'' to save the newest version in the archive.
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It's also possible to use the WM to instantly archive any given webpage, too, simply go to the address ''[=http://web.''[=https://web.archive.org/save/[url_of_the_webpage]=]'' to save the newest version in the archive.
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The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
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The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.\n .
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The Wayback Machine also ''used'' to follow the robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''did'' block its contents from being archived) blocked the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content became inaccessible to the public. Infuriatingly enough, if the domain is taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements a robots file, it will also block you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website. However, the abuse of robots.txt by these cybersquatters led to so many defunct websites losing their previous archives that the Internet Archive themselves decided in April 2017 to stop broadly honoring the standard, now requiring explicit requests for exclusion. They also stopped honoring the standard for crawling and displaying U.S. government and military websites from December 2016 onwards (a month before UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump took office as [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents President of the United States]]).
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The Wayback Machine also ''used'' to follow the robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''did'' block its contents from being archived) blocked the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content became inaccessible to the public. Infuriatingly enough, if the domain is was taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements implemented a robots file, it will also block blocked you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website. However, the abuse of robots.txt by these cybersquatters led to so many defunct websites losing their previous archives that the Internet Archive themselves decided in April 2017 to stop broadly honoring the standard, now requiring explicit requests for exclusion. They also stopped honoring the standard for crawling and displaying U.S. government and military websites from December 2016 onwards (a month before UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump took office as [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents President of the United States]]).
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinitely) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[{{Irony}} made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) 108(h)]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinitely) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[{{Irony}} made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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That being said, though, the Wayback Machine is not 100% reliable. Sometimes, the particular page or image you remember most fondly will turn out to be missing from the archives either due to not many sites linking to it or, more commonly, due to it having a structure that's difficult to archive. Websites like Website/DeviantArt as well as several WebComic sites are notorious for being nigh-impossible to archive, meaning that once they're gone, they're, well, ''gone''. The Wayback Machine also follows the Robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''does'' block its contents from being archived) blocks the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content becomes inaccessible to the public (infuriatingly enough, if the domain is taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements a robots file, it will also block you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website). The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival initiatives such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to download them.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival initiatives such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to download them.
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That being said, though, the Wayback Machine is not 100% reliable. Sometimes, the particular page or image you remember most fondly will turn out to be missing from the archives either due to not many sites linking to it or, more commonly, due to it having a structure that's difficult to archive. Websites like Website/DeviantArt as well as several WebComic sites are notorious for being nigh-impossible to archive, meaning that once they're gone, they're, well, ''gone''. ''gone''.
The Wayback Machine alsofollows ''used'' to follow the Robots robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''does'' ''did'' block its contents from being archived) blocks blocked the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content becomes became inaccessible to the public (infuriatingly public. Infuriatingly enough, if the domain is taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements a robots file, it will also block you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website). website. However, the abuse of robots.txt by these cybersquatters led to so many defunct websites losing their previous archives that the Internet Archive themselves decided in April 2017 to stop broadly honoring the standard, now requiring explicit requests for exclusion. They also stopped honoring the standard for crawling and displaying U.S. government and military websites from December 2016 onwards (a month before UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump took office as [[UsefulNotes/ThePresidents President of the United States]]).
The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival initiatives such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' atTv TV Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to download them.
The Wayback Machine also
The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival initiatives such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library -- [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library -- [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California in 2007]], so there's that.2007]].
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[{{Irony}} made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) indefinitely) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[{{Irony}} made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitalized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival intiaves such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to dowload them.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes in hady if the site you want preserved isn't archived by the Wayback Machine for one reason or the other.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes in hady if the site you want preserved isn't archived by the Wayback Machine for one reason or the other.
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As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitalized digitized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival intiaves initiatives such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to dowload download them.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes inhady handy if the site you want preserved isn't archived by the Wayback Machine for one reason or the other.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes in
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Due to fears of Internet censorship in the US, a [[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/internet-freedom-wayback-machine-moving-copy-to-canada-donald-trump/ Canadian mirror of the Internet Archive was made]] and is being kept up to date so the site can [[{{Invoked}} Invoke]] this trope if necessary. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement That's all we're gonna say about this, by the way]].
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Due to fears of Internet censorship in the US, a [[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/internet-freedom-wayback-machine-moving-copy-to-canada-donald-trump/ Canadian mirror of the Internet Archive was made]] and is being kept up to date so the site can [[{{Invoked}} Invoke]] this trope if necessary. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement That's all we're gonna say about this, by the way]].
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[NiceJobFixingItVillain made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[NiceJobFixingItVillain [[{{Irony}} made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]] himself, this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore; this means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]] himself, this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive, Archive -- and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore; this means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library -- [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library -- [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, California in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library, [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library, library -- [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library,
[[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
[[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library,
library, [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]], this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive itself, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore; this means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
** This trope is also the underpinning of several of their community-maintained collections' works. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur, possibly humorous, and otherwise endangered online works and such.
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]] short comic, which, according to its description, was uploaded into the IA's library by its authors because they thought it was SoBadItsGood, can cause this effect if read through the preview feature, as its image files, although numbered, are out of order just enough for it mess up your understanding of the comic's already confusing plot, but still orderly enough for you to see (or [[DeathOfTheAuthor make up]]) at least ''some'' connection between the pages.
** This trope is also the underpinning of several of their community-maintained collections' works. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur, possibly humorous, and otherwise endangered online works and such.
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]] short comic, which, according to its description, was uploaded into the IA's library by its authors because they thought it was SoBadItsGood, can cause this effect if read through the preview feature, as its image files, although numbered, are out of order just enough for it mess up your understanding of the comic's already confusing plot, but still orderly enough for you to see (or [[DeathOfTheAuthor make up]]) at least ''some'' connection between the pages.
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** Oh, and, if you're wondering, yes, the Internet Archive ''is'' an actual, official library,
[[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site'sfounder]], founder]] himself, this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive itself, Archive, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore; this means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
** This trope is also the underpinning of several of their community-maintained collections' works. The aforementioned (seeAprilFools) AprilFools above) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur, possibly humorous, and otherwise endangered online works and such.
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]]short comic, which, according to its description, was uploaded into the IA's library by its authors because they thought it was SoBadItsGood, can cause this effect if read through the preview feature, as its image files, although numbered, are out of order just enough for it mess up your understanding of the comic's already confusing plot, but still orderly enough for you to see (or [[DeathOfTheAuthor make up]]) at least ''some'' connection between the pages.
[[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 it actually was classified as such by the state of California, in 2007]], so there's that.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's
** This trope is also the underpinning of several of their community-maintained collections' works. The aforementioned (see
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]]
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it an RPG-like interface. It's actually [[GeniusBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it an RPG-like interface. It's actually [[GeniusBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it a [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Zelda-ish]] interface. It's actually [[GeniusBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it a [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Zelda-ish]] an RPG-like interface. It's actually [[GeniusBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it a [[Videogame/LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Zelda-ish]] interface. It's actually [[GeniousBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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* SuddenGameInterface: [[https://archive.org/details/Shoe-tosserGuyGif1 This]] humorous, user-submitted GIF gets the infamous footage of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_shoeing_incident narrowly dodging a shoe]] and adds to it a [[Videogame/LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime [[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Zelda-ish]] interface. It's actually [[GeniousBonus [[GeniusBonus suprisingly well thought of]].
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I think I'm using this trope right. I, um, I think.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]], this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive itself, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]], this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive itself, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This anymore; this means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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Just doing a few tweaks, seeing if looks better if I word it this way.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in the IA's digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
** This trope is also not only the ideology behind the Internet Archive itself (as explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]]), but also what's behind several of their community-maintained collections. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur and possibly humorous online works and such.
** This trope is also not only the ideology behind the Internet Archive itself (as explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]]), but also what's behind several of their community-maintained collections. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur and possibly humorous online works and such.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once As explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]], this is essentially the entire ideology behind the Internet Archive itself, and it shows. For example, once you upload something in the IA's their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can only delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
** This trope is alsonot only the ideology behind the Internet Archive itself (as explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]]), but also what's behind underpinning of several of their community-maintained collections.collections' works. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur and amateur, possibly humorous humorous, and otherwise endangered online works and such.
** This trope is also
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* AprilFools: [[https://archive.org/details/April_Fools This]] video, which was uploaded into the Internet Archive's digital library (presumably) by its authors through the [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, shows two guys enacting some common April Fools pranks. That's just about it, really.
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* AprilFools: [[https://archive.org/details/April_Fools This]] video, which was uploaded into the Internet Archive's digital library (presumably) by its authors through the [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, shows two guys enacting some common April Fools pranks. That's just about it, really.
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* AprilFools: [[https://archive.org/details/April_Fools This]] video, which was uploaded into the Internet Archive (presumably) by its authors through the [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, shows two guys enacting some common April Fools pranks. That's just about it, really.
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* AprilFools: [[https://archive.org/details/April_Fools This]] video, which was uploaded into the Internet Archive Archive's digital library (presumably) by its authors through the [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, shows two guys enacting some common April Fools pranks. That's just about it, really.
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Okay, NOW I'm trying and put up as much user generated content as possible.
* AprilFools: [[https://archive.org/details/April_Fools This]] video, which was uploaded into the Internet Archive (presumably) by its authors through the [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, shows two guys enacting some common April Fools pranks. That's just about it, really.
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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As of October 2016, their collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, it would take up well over half of your brain.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As of October 2016, their the Internet Archive's collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, it would take up well over half of your brain.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something intheir the IA's digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.request.
** This trope is also not only the ideology behind the Internet Archive itself (as explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]]), but also what's behind several of their community-maintained collections. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur and possibly humorous online works and such.
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]] short comic, which, according to its description, was uploaded into the IA's library by its authors because they thought it was SoBadItsGood, can cause this effect if read through the preview feature, as its image files, although numbered, are out of order just enough for it mess up your understanding of the comic's already confusing plot, but still orderly enough for you to see (or [[DeathOfTheAuthor make up]]) at least ''some'' connection between the pages.
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in
** This trope is also not only the ideology behind the Internet Archive itself (as explained by [[https://archive.org/details/SDForumBK this]] speech by none other than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%20Kahle the site's founder]]), but also what's behind several of their community-maintained collections. The aforementioned (see AprilFools) [[https://archive.org/details/ourmedia Ourmedia]] project, for example, strives to give its members a way to share and preserve many of their amateur and possibly humorous online works and such.
* MindScrew: [[https://archive.org/details/thediamondclub This]] short comic, which, according to its description, was uploaded into the IA's library by its authors because they thought it was SoBadItsGood, can cause this effect if read through the preview feature, as its image files, although numbered, are out of order just enough for it mess up your understanding of the comic's already confusing plot, but still orderly enough for you to see (or [[DeathOfTheAuthor make up]]) at least ''some'' connection between the pages.
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Just because they have archive of these it doesn't mean it counts as an example, oops (though I still, I think I might be able to repurpose these later somehow).
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* UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame: They have an official, staff-maintained [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade collection]] of old arcade games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. They managed to evade Copyright laws in this case since it's entirely non-profit.
* FilmNoir: [[https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir&tab=about This]] small, user-maintained collection is dedicated to making copies of such films from the 40s and 50s available through the Internet Archive. As of 2017, they currently have collected about 97 films, amomg them being ''Film/TheStranger'', ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/DeadOnArrival'', and ''Film/{{Suddenly}}''
* FilmNoir: [[https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir&tab=about This]] small, user-maintained collection is dedicated to making copies of such films from the 40s and 50s available through the Internet Archive. As of 2017, they currently have collected about 97 films, amomg them being ''Film/TheStranger'', ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/DeadOnArrival'', and ''Film/{{Suddenly}}''
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* SpeedRun: Not only does the Internet Archive's digital library contain a community-maintained [[https://archive.org/details/speed_runs Speedrun Collection]] with speedruns saved by users from all across the web, but also it's one of their featured i.e. most visited collections; appearing on their front page alongside their collections of [[https://archive.org/details/europeanlibraries works from European libraries]] and [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade old arcade games]].
* VlogSeries: Similarly to the SpeedRun collection noted above, the Internet Archive also has an entirely user submitted [[https://archive.org/details/vlogs&tab=about collection]] of videos from several notable vloggers.
* VlogSeries: Similarly to the SpeedRun collection noted above, the Internet Archive also has an entirely user submitted [[https://archive.org/details/vlogs&tab=about collection]] of videos from several notable vloggers.
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* FilmNoir: [[https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir&tab=about This]] small, user-maintained collection is dedicated to making copies of such films from the 40s and 50s available through the Internet Archive. As of 2017, they currently have collected about 97 films, amomg them being ''Film/TheStranger'', ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/DeadOnArrival'', and ''Film/{{Suddely}}''
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* FilmNoir: [[https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir&tab=about This]] small, user-maintained collection is dedicated to making copies of such films from the 40s and 50s available through the Internet Archive. As of 2017, they currently have collected about 97 films, amomg them being ''Film/TheStranger'', ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/DeadOnArrival'', and ''Film/{{Suddely}}''''Film/{{Suddenly}}''
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!!Tropes associated with the Internet Archive:
* UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame: They have an [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade entire collection]] of old arcade games from the 80s and 70s. They managed to evade Copyright laws in this case since it's entirely non-profit.
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* UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame: They have an official, staff-maintained [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
* FilmNoir: [[https://archive.org/details/Film_Noir&tab=about This]] small, user-maintained collection is dedicated to making copies of such films from the 40s and 50s available through the Internet Archive. As of 2017, they currently have collected about 97 films, amomg them being ''Film/TheStranger'', ''Film/ScarletStreet'', ''Film/DeadOnArrival'', and ''Film/{{Suddely}}''
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* VlogSeries: Similarly to the SpeedRun collection noted above, the Internet Archive also has an entirely user submitted [[https://archive.org/details/vlogs&tab=about collection]] of videos from several notable vloggers.
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Doorstopper concerns individual works, the IA can best be described as a compilation of works.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: As of October 2016, their collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, you'd only have less than 40% of your brain left.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As of October 2016, their collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, you'd only have less than 40% it would take up well over half of your brain left.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.brain.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.
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* InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
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[[https://archive.org The Internet Archive]] is by far ''the'' largest digital library and web archiving organization ever made. Their stated mission is to provide [[InformationWantsToBeFree universal access to all knowledge]], and in order to do that, they have created both a digital library, which is public file hosting system with content submitted by both the community and the site's staff, and, more notably, the Wayback Machine.
The Wayback Machine, which is by far their most famous feature, is essentially a tool that allows people to see past, archived versions of web pages -- in other words, it's the browser version of a TimeMachine.
Here's how it works: After going to the Internet Archive's front page, users can paste a URL address on the input-box below the Wayback Machine logo and pressing "Enter". After that, the user is shown a calendar-like list of archived pages (provided there are any). Dates written on blue dots are links to versions of that particular page archived on that particular date. If a dot is orange, however, then it means that the URL was not found at the time of the snapshot, usually indicating the site was already gone by that time. Green dots, on the other hand, indicate that the URL led to a redirect.
It's also possible to use the WM to instantly archive any given webpage, too, simply go to the address ''[=http://web.archive.org/save/[url_of_the_webpage]=]'' to save the newest version in the archive.
That being said, though, the Wayback Machine is not 100% reliable. Sometimes, the particular page or image you remember most fondly will turn out to be missing from the archives either due to not many sites linking to it or, more commonly, due to it having a structure that's difficult to archive. Websites like Website/DeviantArt as well as several WebComic sites are notorious for being nigh-impossible to archive, meaning that once they're gone, they're, well, ''gone''. The Wayback Machine also follows the Robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''does'' block its contents from being archived) blocks the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content becomes inaccessible to the public (infuriatingly enough, if the domain is taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements a robots file, it will also block you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website). The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitalized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival intiaves such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to dowload them.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes in hady if the site you want preserved isn't archived by the Wayback Machine for one reason or the other.
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!!Tropes associated with the Internet Archive:
* UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame: They have an [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade entire collection]] of old arcade games from the 80s and 70s. They managed to evade Copyright laws in this case since it's entirely non-profit.
* {{Doorstopper}}: As of October 2016, their collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, you'd only have less than 40% of your brain left.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[NiceJobFixingItVillain made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Due to fears of Internet censorship in the US, a [[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/internet-freedom-wayback-machine-moving-copy-to-canada-donald-trump/ Canadian mirror of the Internet Archive was made]] and is being kept up to date so the site can [[{{Invoked}} Invoke]] this trope if necessary. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement That's all we're gonna say about this, by the way]].
* ShoutOut: Yes, their famous Wayback Machine function ''does'' get its name after the WABAC time machine from ''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Peabody's Improbable History]]''. [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle And now you know]].
* SpeedRun: Not only does the Internet Archive's digital library contain a community-maintained [[https://archive.org/details/speed_runs Speedrun Collection]] with speedruns saved by users from all across the web, but also it's one of their featured i.e. most visited collections; appearing on their front page alongside their collections of [[https://archive.org/details/europeanlibraries works from European libraries]] and [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade old arcade games]].
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[[labelnote:Fun fact time!]]If you're wondering why this page was created so recently, don't fret! We actually used to have a page on the Wayback Machine itself back in the day, but we then decided to turn it into a redirect to this new and improved page as per the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14116047640A25319600&page=1 Websites cleanup]] project. Though you can still see what the page used to look like by -- you guessed it -- [[{{Irony}} checking it on the Wayback Machine]]. We recommend you go to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171015235345/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/WaybackMachine this]] capture that was submitted by us tropers just before we deleted it.[[/labelnote]]
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[[https://archive.org The Internet Archive]] is by far ''the'' largest digital library and web archiving organization ever made. Their stated mission is to provide [[InformationWantsToBeFree universal access to all knowledge]], and in order to do that, they have created both a digital library, which is public file hosting system with content submitted by both the community and the site's staff, and, more notably, the Wayback Machine.
The Wayback Machine, which is by far their most famous feature, is essentially a tool that allows people to see past, archived versions of web pages -- in other words, it's the browser version of a TimeMachine.
Here's how it works: After going to the Internet Archive's front page, users can paste a URL address on the input-box below the Wayback Machine logo and pressing "Enter". After that, the user is shown a calendar-like list of archived pages (provided there are any). Dates written on blue dots are links to versions of that particular page archived on that particular date. If a dot is orange, however, then it means that the URL was not found at the time of the snapshot, usually indicating the site was already gone by that time. Green dots, on the other hand, indicate that the URL led to a redirect.
It's also possible to use the WM to instantly archive any given webpage, too, simply go to the address ''[=http://web.archive.org/save/[url_of_the_webpage]=]'' to save the newest version in the archive.
That being said, though, the Wayback Machine is not 100% reliable. Sometimes, the particular page or image you remember most fondly will turn out to be missing from the archives either due to not many sites linking to it or, more commonly, due to it having a structure that's difficult to archive. Websites like Website/DeviantArt as well as several WebComic sites are notorious for being nigh-impossible to archive, meaning that once they're gone, they're, well, ''gone''. The Wayback Machine also follows the Robots exclusion standard, so if your favorite website (say, like Website/FanFictionDotNet, which actually ''does'' block its contents from being archived) blocks the Wayback Machine from saving it in its robots.txt file, then it and its content becomes inaccessible to the public (infuriatingly enough, if the domain is taken over by a cybersquatter who then implements a robots file, it will also block you from seeing the earlier, legitimate versions of the website). The IA also takes no chances with the law, and so all requests by the copyright owners to remove data from the Wayback Machine are immediately obeyed. This means it's not necessarily the best archiving service to stymie an OrwellianEditor.
As for the Internet Archive's digital library, although it is by comparison a lesser-known feature, it is still by no means lacking in content, as it is not only where the Internet Archive hosts the films, photos, and books they've digitalized (they ''are'' a library, after all), but also it's widely used by archival intiaves such as the Wiki/ArchiveTeam as well as various users eager to either submit cool videos and such they found throughout the web, or upload their content somewhere secure. In fact, even ''us'' at Tv Tropes are beginning to enjoy using this feature, as it allows for us to post important videos and webcomics and such somewhere where they are guaranteed to stay (unlike, say, Google Drive or [=MediaFire=]). It also helps that image files hosted on the IA can be viewed as part of their "preview" feature, this makes the Internet Archive even ''more'' useful for archiving things like webcomics, as they can already be read there on a surprisingly readable format without actually having to dowload them.
Oh, and yes, the Internet Archive is also behind [[https://archive-it.org/ archive-it]] ('''not''' related to Wiki/ArchiveTeam), which is a paid subscription service that lets you run crawler projects of your own, which comes in hady if the site you want preserved isn't archived by the Wayback Machine for one reason or the other.
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!!Tropes associated with the Internet Archive:
* UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame: They have an [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade entire collection]] of old arcade games from the 80s and 70s. They managed to evade Copyright laws in this case since it's entirely non-profit.
* {{Doorstopper}}: As of October 2016, their collection of books, videos, images, and websites has [[https://blog.archive.org/2016/10/23/defining-web-pages-web-sites-and-web-captures/ topped 15 Petabytes]] and continues to grow. For some context, the human brain can hold roughly [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 25 Petabytes worth of data]] (that's ten times the findings of [[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-memory-capacity/ previous studies]]). This means that if you were to memorize their entire database, you'd only have less than 40% of your brain left.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: As mentioned above, the Internet Archive (which was [[https://archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=121377 officially classified as a library]] by the state of California in 2007) contains over 15 Petabytes of worth of books, films, pictures, and archives of nearly every website ever created.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: Once you upload something in their digital library, it technically doesn't belong to you anymore. This means that not only it will stay up even if you delete your account, but also that you can delete it only through a formal request, which can be declined. This is {{Averted}}, however, whenever UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} is brought up into the conversation, as the IA does ''not'' take any chances with the law and will remove anything from their archives upon a DMCA request.
* RulesLawyer: There is a small, little known provision on the US Copyright law (section [[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108 108th]]) that dictates that libraries can make copies of books whose Copyright has originally expired (but has been repeatedly extended) available within their archives, this law was made as counteraction to the [[http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/uclalr48&div=35&id=&page= Mickey Mouse Protection Act]] (which allowed companies to extend Copyright terms indefinetly) and was thought up ''years'' before TheInternet was even conceived. Several decades later and, in October 2017, [[https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ the Internet Archive used this long forgotten rule]] in order to make it so essentially ''all'' books published between 1923 and 1942 would become available within [[https://archive.org/details/last20&tab=about a collection]] in their digital library, and suggested that other libraries should do the same. To add insult to injury, they also named said collection after [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono Sonny Bono]], the man behind the law that [[NiceJobFixingItVillain made the provision behind all of this a necessity in the first place]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Due to fears of Internet censorship in the US, a [[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/internet-freedom-wayback-machine-moving-copy-to-canada-donald-trump/ Canadian mirror of the Internet Archive was made]] and is being kept up to date so the site can [[{{Invoked}} Invoke]] this trope if necessary. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement That's all we're gonna say about this, by the way]].
* ShoutOut: Yes, their famous Wayback Machine function ''does'' get its name after the WABAC time machine from ''[[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Peabody's Improbable History]]''. [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle And now you know]].
* SpeedRun: Not only does the Internet Archive's digital library contain a community-maintained [[https://archive.org/details/speed_runs Speedrun Collection]] with speedruns saved by users from all across the web, but also it's one of their featured i.e. most visited collections; appearing on their front page alongside their collections of [[https://archive.org/details/europeanlibraries works from European libraries]] and [[https://archive.org/details/internetarcade old arcade games]].
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[[labelnote:Fun fact time!]]If you're wondering why this page was created so recently, don't fret! We actually used to have a page on the Wayback Machine itself back in the day, but we then decided to turn it into a redirect to this new and improved page as per the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14116047640A25319600&page=1 Websites cleanup]] project. Though you can still see what the page used to look like by -- you guessed it -- [[{{Irony}} checking it on the Wayback Machine]]. We recommend you go to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171015235345/http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/WaybackMachine this]] capture that was submitted by us tropers just before we deleted it.[[/labelnote]]
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