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The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/14303847

Despite Paramount Global’s corporate decision to purge MTV News’ online content (as well as that of Comedy Central, TVLand and CMT), much of the site has been resurrected on the Internet Archive, which now offers “a searchable index of 460,575 web pages previously published at mtv.com/news.”

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[–] 9point6 165 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The internet archive is up there with Wikipedia as one of the most important things we've created over the past few years

Please don't fuck this up America

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

We need to archive the Internet Archive.

Maybe put it in international waters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

"And lo the corporations built their own navy, or maybe bought the US Navy which amounted to the same thing..."

[–] gnate 2 points 4 months ago

The RCIA, Radio Caroline Internet Archive

[–] NOT_RICK 51 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you’re reading this and haven’t yet donated to the internet archive I encourage you to do so. They do important work that is crucial to preserving the history of the internet.

[–] kautau 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And sign their Open Letter to Publishers, which will help demonstrate public support during their ongoing lawsuit:

https://change.org/LetReadersRead

https://blog.archive.org/2024/07/01/what-happened-last-friday-in-hachette-v-internet-archive/

[–] NOT_RICK 6 points 4 months ago

I’ve been conditioned to believe change.org is beyond useless but if that’s what they’re requesting I guess I’ll throw my hat in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for sharing this. Just signed.

[–] ivanafterall 30 points 4 months ago

The Internet Archive really is an irreplaceable treasure.

[–] fluxc0 24 points 4 months ago

preserving history, one website resurrection at the time. thanks, internet archive.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Watch them cry copyright on a bunch of shit they had no interest in maintaining.

[–] Tronn4 3 points 4 months ago

All I want to know is what do Ja think about this?