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

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 27, 2012 @03:14PM 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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What the hell by nuckfuts · 2012-10-27 19:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

are they using for backups?
Re:Relevance of byte count by GofG · 2012-10-27 21:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

No, go ahead and mod me down. Every time i post, I look at my user ID and think "GOD FUCKING DAMNIT IF I HAD WAITED LIKE TEN MINUTES I WOULD HAVE HAD A PALINDROME AUAUUUUUUGGGHHH"
i deserve all the downmods i get, accidental or otherwise.

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