They can offer a perk that literally no other tech job can offer: Someday have a statue of your likeness preserved in ceramic: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/internet-archive-headqua...

"Inside the church's main room, with its still-intact pews, there are more than 120 ceramic sculptures of the Internet Archive's current and former employees, created by artist Nuala Creed and inspired by the statues of the Xian warriors in China."

We've hired a few dozen people over the past couple of years. We think they're pretty talented.

Show me the faster wayback machine we are competing against.

i'm a big fan of IA and wayback machine. i donate. but i do wish it were faster. i understand that would cost a lot more though.

i wonder if maybe donors above a certain level could get priority on archiving pages or something.

Do you really think that is a good argument against the perception of technical stagnation?

That sounds really entitled.

We've had showdowns with lawyers, governments, hackers and spammers, but I'm not sure how we'll stand up against perception.