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The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

Posted by Soulskill on from the or-one-kilo-library-of-congress dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last night, the Internet Archive threw a party; hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated that the site had passed the 10,000,000,000,000,000 byte mark for archiving the Internet. As the non-profit digital library, known for its Wayback Machine service, points out, the organization has thus now saved 10 petabytes of cultural material." The announcement coincided with the release of an 80-terabyte dataset for researchers and, for the first time, the complete literature of a people: the Balinese.

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  1. Relevance of byte count by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much of that is porn, I wonder.

    1. Re:Relevance of byte count by GofG · · Score: 5, Funny

      There is a torrent on thepiratebay of every single geocities site. It's an archive, but i've downloaded it. What was your site? I'll rar it up for you.

      --
      GFA/M/S d-- s: a--- C++++ UBL++$ P+ L+++ !E- W++ N+ !o K- w--- !O !M !V PS++ PE Y+ PGP+ t+++ 5- X+ R tv@ b++ DI++++ D+ G
    2. Re:Relevance of byte count by Raenex · · Score: 5, Funny

      when copyright runs out

      Thanks for the laugh.