untangling_the_web

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The Internet Archive & the Wayback
Machine
You have to give Brewster Kahle credit for thinking big. The founder of the Internet
Archive has a clear, if not easy, mission: to make all human knowledge universally
accessible. And, who knows, he might just succeed. What has made Kahle's dream
seem possible is extremely inexpensive storage technology. As of now, the Internet
Archive houses "approximately 1 petabyte of data and is currently growing at a rate
of 20 terabytes per month. This eclipses the amount of text contained in the world's
largest libraries, including the Library of Congress. If you tried to place the entire
contents of the archive onto floppy disks (we don't recommend this!) and laid them
end to end, it would stretch from New York, past Los Angeles, and halfway to
Hawaii.,,102 In December 2006 the Archive announced it had indexed over 85 billion
"web objects" and that its database contained over 1.5 petabytes of lnformatlon.l'"
But that's not all that Kahle and company have archived. The Archive also now
contains about 2 million audio works; over 10,000 music concerts; thousands of
"moving images," including 300 feature films; its own and links to others' digitized
texts, including printable and downloadable books; and 3 million hours of television
shows (enough to satisfy even the most sedulous couch potato!). Kahle's long term
dream includes scanning and digitizing the entire Library of Congress collection of
about 28 million books (something that is technically within reach), but there are
46 Internet Archive FAQs, (14
November 2006).
103 Brewster Kahle, "Wayback Machine has 85 Billion Archived Webpages," Internet Archive Forum, 5
December 2006, (16 January 2007).
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