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British Library To Archive One Billion UK Websites

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-one-hundred-billion? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The British Library is to begin archiving the entire UK web, including one billion pages from 4.8 million websites, blogs, forums and social media sites. The process will take five months, with the aim of presenting a more complete picture of news events for future generations to read and learn from."

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  1. Gotta love that management "thought" process by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    We had a manager, some years ago, who had the bright idea of assigning one staff member the task of printing out our entire website once a month so she (the manager) could look things up easily.

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  2. Re:Data Storage by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Funny

    How are they going to store the data?

    They're planning to save disk space by just referencing the original page content inside of an iframe.

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  3. Re:Data Storage by N+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    How are they going to store the data?

    They'll use the "Cloud".

    ..., Oh, wait...

    No problems. Plenty of those in the UK.