FWIW, If you asked me to choose whether I'd get to keep the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine or Wikipedia, I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat. (Not to mention the opportunities for serendipitous discovery are always amazing at the Internet Archive, even outside the Wayback Machine.)<p>I don't use the Internet Archive as often, but when I need it, I need it bad, and Brewster Kahle is the ultimate Internet badass for creating it. That is all.
Weird this 2020 article hit the front page for a while, so obligatory link to the donation page:<p><a href="https://archive.org/donate" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/donate</a><p>Obligatory link to the "Computers on Tape" collection:<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/tapecomputers</a>
Christ, this is a story that admits in it's second paragraph that it's headline is false.<p>I believe the IA will lose the case quite badly, but it won't eliminate the IA. It might force the current board to resign though, which they should for being so recklessly stupid.