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		ComputerGuru on May 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web se... Old and unmaintained websites are not collecting any information, let alone sensitive information. They’re mainly read-only, informative content that the web would be infinitely worse-off without.

JoshTriplett on May 13, 2020 [–]

The Internet Archive helps maintain that information far more reliably than a 20-year-old unpatched webserver could.

ComputerGuru on May 13, 2020 | [–]

The internet archive is unfortunately poorly indexed/searchable bordering on not at all.

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