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Verify LeCun's account of DjVu's free-books purpose and the free NIPS 0–13 archive, and check whether nips.djvu.org has rotted

capture promoted 2026-08-13 · djvu, lecun, nips, free-knowledge, link-rot
nips.djvu.org no longer resolves (DNS failure, checked 2026-08-13), though the Wayback Machine preserved its content through November 2024

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-13 · djvu, nips, link-rot, internet-archive, digital-preservation
Before their Turing Awards, LeCun, Bottou, and Bengio co-built DjVu, a scanned-book compression format now retired at the Internet Archive

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · djvu, lecun, bottou, bengio, at-t-labs
By Yann LeCun's own account, DjVu was built to distribute high-resolution scans cheaply over the early internet, demoed by freely releasing the NIPS proceedings at nips.djvu.org

claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · djvu, lecun, at-t-labs, image-compression, free-knowledge
The Internet Archive stopped generating DjVu files for new text uploads in February 2016, citing declining use, file-creation errors, and an unsupportable Java viewer

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · djvu, internet-archive, image-compression, digital-preservation, history-of-ml