The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

There is no widely available public tool comparable to the Wayback Machine, and if it continues to lose access to major news sources, its preservation efforts could erode to the point where early digital records of history become much harder to access, or are even lost altogether.

On the one hand, I get it—you don't want your stories to come out from behind the paywall and you don't want it to be used by AI (although I bet most of these publications have deals with AI companies—so that's the real reason). But no one is really reading everything via the Wayback Machine—since it's a snapshot, it's not a pleasant experience—and if they are, you are failing at presenting your journalism in a meaningful way.