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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 GofG · · 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.

      --
      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
    3. Re:Relevance of byte count by Raenex · · Score: 5, Funny

      when copyright runs out

      Thanks for the laugh.

  2. Indispensable reference for slashdotters by guttentag · · Score: 5, Insightful
    For instance, note the archived film "Dating: Do's and Don'ts" (1949) It begins thus:

    How do you choose a date? Whose company would you enjoy?

    Well, one thing you can consider is looks. Woody thought of Janice and how good looking she was. He'd really have to rate to date her. Yes, he'd enjoy that, except... Well, it's too bad Janice always acts so superior. She'd make a fellow feel awkward and bored.

    Well, perhaps someone who doesn't feel so superior. There's Betty. And yet, it just doesn't seem as if she'd be much fun.

    What about Anne? She knows how to have a good time, and how to make the fellow with her relax, too. Yes, that's what a boy likes.

    Yes, the Internet now provides everything you ever needed to know but were afraid to ask.

  3. Domain parkers deleting archives by linebackn · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't know if they have done anything about this recently, but there was a problem with domain parking sites putting up a robots.txt that instructs Archive.org to delete or suppress any archives of the site that was there previously. Have run in to a few sites like that. If someone dies and their site goes with them, it isn't right for some squatter to remove their work from history.

    And I wish I could pull up historic copies of the original altavista.digital.com.

  4. What the hell by nuckfuts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    are they using for backups?

  5. Re:looks like you forgot to add '-h' switch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You have that backwards, kilo, mega, giga, tera and so forth are base ten prefixes and have been for quite a bit longer than people have been misusing them to refer to base 2 numbers. As such it made more sense to leave it consistent with everything else and make a new prefix for the binary numbers.