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Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-the-greatest-things-ever-built dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "The San Francisco building housing the Internet Archive, and its popular Wayback Machine, has suffered a serious fire. While no archived data was destroyed, materials awaiting archival were. Rebuilding will be a major undertaking, and the group is soliciting donations."

3 of 104 comments (clear)

  1. Re:almost could have been like 48 B.C. by i+kan+reed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I forgot that the library of Alexandria had a big pile of archived cat photos.

  2. NSA? by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

    I bet it was a jealous neighbor. ;-)

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  3. Re:almost could have been like 48 B.C. by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was in Egypt.