In late 2024 and early 2025, the Archive suffered repeated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Hackers—some politically motivated, some just chaotic—knocked the Wayback Machine offline for weeks at a time. Each attack forced the Archive to spend emergency funds on cloud firewalls and bandwidth it never budgeted for.
Because we got thirsty, and we forgot to share the water. parched internet archive
The Parched Internet Archive: When the World’s Memory Bank Runs Dry In late 2024 and early 2025, the Archive