When did the person known as Zodiac begin archiving Marxist texts?
The person known only by the Internet tag Zodiac began archiving Marxist texts in 1990. They started by transcribing the Communist Manifesto into E-text format.
The person known only by the Internet tag Zodiac began archiving Marxist texts in 1990. They started by transcribing the Communist Manifesto into E-text format.
In July 1998 the present form of the Marxists Internet Archive was created by volunteers transferring files and archives from Marx.org. This led to a further increase in activity and an enlargement of the scope of the archive.
Volunteers were left with CPU issues after attempts tried to exploit a misconfiguration in their server's operating system. That the majority of systems involved in the attack were either in China or belonging to Chinese institutions led to speculation that the attacks may have been politically motivated.
All the material stored in the archives is either public domain, under the GNU Free Documentation License, or used with the copyright holders' permission. Any work created by MIA volunteers is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
The website is primarily served via an ISP in Germany. Three mirrors exist, two of them in Europe and one in the United States.