Internet >
A placeholder page while I research this.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
www.cloudflare.com
This seems like a decent service. Their free plan does a good job.
404 pages are hijacked by them, though
Internet >
See also:
Other protocols may have their own search engines listed: FTP, gopher, Tor, etc.
https://chromakode.com/post/slow-news/
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
I once learned the idea that if one does nothing to seek out news, the important things will find their way to you.
I got no response.
Writing > Computers, Internet >
Everything is frail to failure. Be it hardware, software, data, business relationships, or people, nothing is immortal and immutable.
Many things are immediately recognized; the hardware and software, but we fail to see people; the wetware. They represent the intellectual backbone of major projects, the "wet infrastructure" upon which our technology relies, and when they cannot contribute, their projects suffer and we suffer. Their influence isn't just notable, but critical.
For the internet, esr calls them Load-Bearing Internet People.
Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.yacy.net/
A self-hosted peer-to-peer search engine.
Aborted because openjdk-8 is not available to me.
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK [ 1 ] was https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/git-annex_implementation [ 2 ] was https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/git-annex_implementation
https://web.archive.org/web/20200610074549/http://iabak.archiveteam.org/
A distributed backup of The Internet Archive.
Aside from donating to The Internet Archive, offering disk space is the least someone can to do.