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Mark Graham

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
297 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

But there's other dimensions, though, of this evolving digital world that we live in that are representing new challenges and new opportunities. Issues like hyper-personalization. The web you experience is different than the web I experience. Even down to a given web page, what you see and what I see may be different because of

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

geography or browser type or what that website knows about us as individuals, our age or our preferences, et cetera. And I'm not just talking about the ads either. You know, this is elements of it. So hyper-personalization is one thing. The splinterization of the net often around geopolitical boundaries where large parts of the internet are just not accessible to other parts of the internet.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

geography or browser type or what that website knows about us as individuals, our age or our preferences, et cetera. And I'm not just talking about the ads either. You know, this is elements of it. So hyper-personalization is one thing. The splinterization of the net often around geopolitical boundaries where large parts of the internet are just not accessible to other parts of the internet.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

geography or browser type or what that website knows about us as individuals, our age or our preferences, et cetera. And I'm not just talking about the ads either. You know, this is elements of it. So hyper-personalization is one thing. The splinterization of the net often around geopolitical boundaries where large parts of the internet are just not accessible to other parts of the internet.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

Certainly we all know about the great firewall of China where But there are many, many other examples of that. When Russia invaded Ukraine, many thousands of websites that had traditionally been available from Russia in the West are no longer available. And then there's the evolution of what we think of as the internet into the web.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

Certainly we all know about the great firewall of China where But there are many, many other examples of that. When Russia invaded Ukraine, many thousands of websites that had traditionally been available from Russia in the West are no longer available. And then there's the evolution of what we think of as the internet into the web.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

Certainly we all know about the great firewall of China where But there are many, many other examples of that. When Russia invaded Ukraine, many thousands of websites that had traditionally been available from Russia in the West are no longer available. And then there's the evolution of what we think of as the internet into the web.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And now it's this kind of like mobile first kind of environment with apps and apps to their own kind of special hell of walled garden content. For a variety of ways, it's very bound technically and often administratively with IDs and passwords and paywalls and all the rest of that. So getting material out of these containers that we think of as apps that live on our phones is challenging.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And now it's this kind of like mobile first kind of environment with apps and apps to their own kind of special hell of walled garden content. For a variety of ways, it's very bound technically and often administratively with IDs and passwords and paywalls and all the rest of that. So getting material out of these containers that we think of as apps that live on our phones is challenging.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And now it's this kind of like mobile first kind of environment with apps and apps to their own kind of special hell of walled garden content. For a variety of ways, it's very bound technically and often administratively with IDs and passwords and paywalls and all the rest of that. So getting material out of these containers that we think of as apps that live on our phones is challenging.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

No. We have some archives from some YouTube videos, but you just threw out a number like three or four million a day, like nothing near that. This goes to also like, why do we archive what we archive and how do we make choices? And the answer in short is there are more than 10,000 different reasons why a given URL may be archived by the Wayback Machine at any given day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

No. We have some archives from some YouTube videos, but you just threw out a number like three or four million a day, like nothing near that. This goes to also like, why do we archive what we archive and how do we make choices? And the answer in short is there are more than 10,000 different reasons why a given URL may be archived by the Wayback Machine at any given day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

No. We have some archives from some YouTube videos, but you just threw out a number like three or four million a day, like nothing near that. This goes to also like, why do we archive what we archive and how do we make choices? And the answer in short is there are more than 10,000 different reasons why a given URL may be archived by the Wayback Machine at any given day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And they are in part selected by the more than 1,000 partners that we have that are primarily librarians that do curation of material that they think should be archived. So we have partnerships with them. We have partnerships with CloudFlare, an infrastructure provider, with WordPress, with Wikipedia. We also offer a service called Save Page Now.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And they are in part selected by the more than 1,000 partners that we have that are primarily librarians that do curation of material that they think should be archived. So we have partnerships with them. We have partnerships with CloudFlare, an infrastructure provider, with WordPress, with Wikipedia. We also offer a service called Save Page Now.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

And they are in part selected by the more than 1,000 partners that we have that are primarily librarians that do curation of material that they think should be archived. So we have partnerships with them. We have partnerships with CloudFlare, an infrastructure provider, with WordPress, with Wikipedia. We also offer a service called Save Page Now.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

I would say the Instagram is the web, but I would say it's not necessarily the public web because generally speaking, material from Instagram, Facebook, and threads, they're basically the meta properties are not very accessible unless you have an ID and a password on those services. Even the so-called public pages have limitations for how one can access them. So there are special cases.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

I would say the Instagram is the web, but I would say it's not necessarily the public web because generally speaking, material from Instagram, Facebook, and threads, they're basically the meta properties are not very accessible unless you have an ID and a password on those services. Even the so-called public pages have limitations for how one can access them. So there are special cases.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

I would say the Instagram is the web, but I would say it's not necessarily the public web because generally speaking, material from Instagram, Facebook, and threads, they're basically the meta properties are not very accessible unless you have an ID and a password on those services. Even the so-called public pages have limitations for how one can access them. So there are special cases.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot

We work hard to archive things that people think they want to preserve in some fashion. And so a lot of material on some of these social platforms are archived by patrons who enter URLs into the Wayback Machine.