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0 pointsinput_sh20h ago0 comments

Relevant blog post: https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzer...

> Internet Archive Switzerland joins a growing group of mission-aligned organizations, alongside Internet Archive, Internet Archive Canada, and Internet Archive Europe. Together, these independent libraries strengthen a shared vision: building a distributed, resilient digital library for the world.

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card_zero18h ago

I was interested in the others, but https://www.internetarchive.eu is a horrible corporate-looking site with a hero image, a boast about AI, a carousel of news that won't scroll with doing its slow scroll animation, a huge "meet the team" section with mugshots and boring profiles, social media links, a newsletter signup form, and nothing to say where the actual archive is.

ferongr16h ago

Looks like an "organization" tailor made to be awarded EU funds for their "mission".

CPLX15h ago

Mysteries abound.

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ConceptJunkie9h ago

Somewhere there's a "create a random, soulless, corporate website generator", and these folks used it.

carlosjobim18h ago

Reading what little information they have there, they aren't a public facing or public serving organization. They seem to provide their services to institutions only:

"working with dozens of European libraries and government agencies to build web collections, Internet Archive Europe prioritized collaboration with cultural heritage organizations to safeguard our collective history."

badlibrarian14h ago

Internet Archive runs a completely separate version of their site for paying institutional clients. https://archive-it.org/

In a best case scenario, this eventually becomes the replacement for the (lets be honest) absurdly awful archive.org front and backend.

So: an expansion into the EU market. And yes, a honeypot for grant funds, because why not? Good for them.

justusthane11h ago

I was excited to see there's a Canadian one, but it's just a Wordpress blog?

chorizo11h ago

They do exist and involved in archiving. Someone reached out to our amateur radio club and offered to archive any documents we might have. They even asked to archive the video recording of one of our monthly meetings.

dang13h ago

Thanks! Since the submitted URL https://internetarchive.ch/ seems to be down, I've put your link at the top and moved the other to the toptext.

rbanffy17h ago

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068333, but got little traction.

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