Did The Wayback Machine Die in 2010?

[incrediBILL]

One of our mods, Ash Nallawalla [webmasterworld.com], wrote an interesting article about whether or not the Wayback Machine, the reviled archive.org [archive.org], overloaded and died in 2010.

Looks like the Wayback Machine died in 2010. I can’t find any article about its demise. OK, someone might find a page archived in 2011, but it effectively died when it stopped archiving important sites.

I rarely see it even attempt to crawl anymore, could it be true, could our online nemesis of copyright infringement be over it's head and doomed to expire in a timely demise?

I personally never found any use for this copyright infringing server resource hogging leech, but then again, you can tell I'm a bit biased.

Don't forget the pitfalls: [webmasterworld.com...]

Comments please ;)

[wilderness]

Hey Bill,
The Wayback Machine (i. e., Alexa) is actively involved in the Google Books Project and has been for some while.

IMO, it's a worthwhile transition and more effective use of their organization.

Don

[incrediBILL]

That's interesting but doesn't really explain the observation that their site seems to have skidded to a stop with it's updates.

[wilderness]

I'm certainly not losing any sleep over the inactivity of their bot ;)

I had them denied access for more than ten years!