The Internet Archive Offline, The Wayback Machine Is Coming Back But It Will Take Time
Reporting almost in real time on the situation of The Internet Archive and other related services is Brewster Kahle , who on Elon Musk's social network simply defines himself as a digital librarian. First belgium phone number of all, it is nice to note that Kahle's messages have recently changed tone just a little. He was in fact able to write that The Wayback Machine is finally back in operation, even if " in safe mode and read only ."
This means, and Kahle also clarifies it in the message published last October 14, there is no possibility of saving new pages. You can go back to using the service but most likely there will be a need for further maintenance , concludes Kahle.
More recently, Kahle added that The Wayback Machine is back up to 1,500 requests per second , meaning traffic is back to normal. However, this does not mean that all of The Internet Archive is back up and running, and Kahle clarifies that other services are not back up and running. It will take more time.
This is what's in place of The Internet Archive's homepage, for now – sos-wp.it
But what happened?
What led to the temporary elimination of one of the main systems with which one can examine previous versions of a website , a corollary of what many consider the new Library of Alexandria?
Let's try to answer by always looking for information available online. It all started last October 9th when the entire The Internet Archive platform was the target of a DDoS attack. With a coincidence that is only temporal, there had been, just in the days before the attack, the will on the part of the organization to speak openly about the attack that instead had led unknown subjects to get their hands on 31 million data of registered users . Data that were however made as unusable as possible by the organization itself.
Experts have confirmed that there is no correlation between the two attacks other than a coincidence. The DDoS attack against The Internet Archive and all its offshoots was apparently carried out by the Blackmeta group.