Internet Archive hit by widespread website outage reports
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Updated · Asbury Park Press · May 7
Internet Archive hit by widespread website outage reports
12 articles · Updated · Asbury Park Press · May 7
By 9:54 a.m. on 7 May, Downdetector had logged 156 reports, with users saying the San Francisco-based site was "completely down."
The disruption appeared to block access for people trying to use the nonprofit digital library's website, though no cause or restoration timeline was reported.
Internet Archive describes its mission as providing universal access to knowledge, preserving websites, software, books and music in a vast searchable online collection.
Is the Internet Archive's outage a technical glitch or a sign of its growing vulnerability?
Caught between publishers and AI, can the Internet Archive survive as our digital memory keeper?