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Inside the Internet Archives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the those-who-ignore-history-are-doomed-to-eat-a-sandwich dept.

blackbearnh writes "O'Reilly Media is running an interview with Gordon Mohr, Chief Technologist for the Internet Archive (archive.org). If you've ever wondered how pages are selected for archiving, or just how they manage such a huge quantity of data, the answers are here. The interview also touches on the problems of intellectual property in archives, archiving the Internet in a post Web 2.0 world, and the potential vulnerabilities exposed by archiving web sites that may include security exploits."

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  1. Oblig. Clark/Kubrick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    My God, it's full of ones and zeros!

  2. question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    do they archive SECOND POSTs?

  3. mutual exclusivity? by Itninja · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Interviewer: And I'm not sure I want to think about what posterity is going to think about a recording of my Twitter feed.

    If Twitter becomes so mainstream so as to be more than a 'remember when?' to posterity I will kill myself.

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    1. Re:mutual exclusivity? by GregNorc · · Score: 2, Funny

      I really like Penny Arcade's comic about twitter.

      Twitter seems useless to me. Maybe if my friends used it I might, but for now an away message or facebook status does the job just fine.

    2. Re:mutual exclusivity? by negRo_slim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe if my friends used it I might, That's what I always thought, but then I realize how few shits I'd give about what my friends would write... and it all becomes clear, all those sites are pointless!
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    3. Re:mutual exclusivity? by Chyeld · · Score: 2, Funny

      If Twitter becomes so mainstream so as to be more than a 'remember when?' to posterity I will kill myself.
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      I am ten ninjas.
      Lets be realistic here, you are ten ninjas. You will be killing yourself regardless.
  4. but is it indexed by google? by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 4, Funny

    and does archive.org record google's cache?

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  5. Re:I wished archive.org stored even more stuff by blhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Combining a bookmarking / chaching service would be really handy. I heard that lexmark makes one, its called a "printer".
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  6. Re:Wayback by oodaloop · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry you feel that way. I, for one, welcome our robots.txt overlords.

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  7. Re:slashdot uid by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    HAW HAW!

    Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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