Let's archive the web (Changelog Interviews #619)
Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
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- 0:00 Software moves fast. So keep up.
- 1:06 Sponsor: Fly.io
- 3:35 Let's talk archiving
- 5:34 Wayback Machine has had challenges
- 14:25 Starting ArchiveBox
- 16:11 Fahrenheit 451
- 22:47 The internet is young
- 29:45 The time unlock
- 33:00 Sponsor: Timescale
- 35:17 Sponsor: Wix
- 36:11 Archiving for legacy
- 38:16 2070 headline
- 41:34 How does it work?
- 44:28 Dealing archive and file size
- 46:41 Nick uses ZFS!!
- 48:12 Going mainstream?
- 49:27 Accessing credentialed stuff
- 51:54 Single or multiplayer game?
- 54:47 Running ArchiveBox
- 56:29 abx-dl is cool
- 59:39 Adam's confession
- 1:01:09 This needs to become a thing
- 1:02:40 Nick's personal archive
- 1:03:29 Sponsor: WorkOS
- 1:06:19 This video is no longer available
- 1:09:12 Seriously using ArchiveBox
- 1:11:52 Mostly cooking videos
- 1:15:27 An internet on the internet
- 1:17:00 Session replay for your archive
- 1:18:45 An index worth sharing
- 1:21:18 Adam is sold, Jerod is not.
- 1:22:01 Thanks Hack Club Bank (HBC)
- 1:23:31 Nick interviews Adam and Jerod
- 1:27:54 You as a model
- 1:31:05 Are we done?
- 1:31:53 Closing thoughts and stuff
- 1:36:01 ++ Teaser
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