The Internet Archive is even more essential than I realized
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Taken offline after a breach, the huge collection of webpages, e-books, and other content is doing essential work abandoned by the for-profit web.
It never dawned on me that I might be insufficiently grateful for the Internet Archive. For many years, I’ve used it on something close to a daily basis, including to research numerous articles I couldn’t have written otherwise. I’ve uploaded some of my own work to it, shipped off my grandfather’s scholarly library for scanning, and donated money (though not enough).