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How The Internet Archive Works

submitted by hamsteralliance

1 decade 11 months 2 weeks ago

You're probably familiar with Archive.org and The Wayback Machine. Well, here's how it's all set up.

Vimeo Description:

Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.

The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.

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*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by shveddy.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by Barseps.

Got the wayback machine in the bookmark toolbar, hit it up alla time-So cool they used an old church for their servers-

*promote great ideas

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, May 9th, 2013 11:39pm PDT - promote requested by messenger.

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http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://videosift.com

Go back to 3/15/2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20060315170025/http://www.videosift.com/ ...

truth-is-the-nemesis

Great find:)

I just used archive.org a few hours ago ( googlelabs.com last useful page = Oct 11, 2011 ). Great work they are doing, even if the site is a little slow.

Nice to see all their servers are SuperMicro... best bang for the buck if you are building an open source platform.

Storing the *history of the internet for *future generations.

Adding video to channels (Future, History) - requested by jimnms.

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