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Tim Ferriss shares that his first blog from 2006 is preserved on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, highlighting its role in digital archiving.
The Internet Archive has implemented protections on the Wayback Machine to handle high-volume automated traffic, which sometimes blocks legitimate users. They are improving bot detection and advising users to contact support if incorrectly blocked.
A blog post from the Internet Archive analyzing recent link-rot studies (Pew, Zittrain, ODU) and showing how the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of otherwise dead webpages, highlighting the ongoing problem of web decay and the role of web archives.
A petition calls on major media outlets like the New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to resume collaborating with the Internet Archive, arguing that blocking the Wayback Machine undermines press freedom and historical record preservation.