Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs. Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements. Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago. Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes of data.
(Want a humorous description of a petabyte? Start at 28:55) This database is queried over 1,000 times a second by over 500,000 people a day helping make archive.org the 250th most popular website. Over the past year we archived tons of pages about the United States 2012 presidential election. You can revisit the New York Times live coverage page from election day, the campaign sites of Republican hopefuls like Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, and mini-scandals like Romney’s car elevator or using aspirin as contraceptives. Internet Archive Forums: View Posts. Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth | Threat Level. Here’s the problem with libraries. They catch on fire really easily. As such, they were the prized targets of the invading hordes of antiquity – the model collections of knowledge of their times, whose only fault was their inherent flammability.
They were one-man, one-torch jobs. But the hordes didn’t prize the library only for how powerfully it burned. Back in those days, if you wanted to kill a culture, you killed its library. “If this is what happens to libraries, make copies,” says Brewster Kahle. And it’s Kahle’s impulse to copy and preserve that prompted the Internet Society to induct the serial entrepreneur and digital archivist into the Internet Hall of Fame on April 23 in its inaugural year. Kahle took the library of libraries — the internet — and made a couple of copies of it, and keeps making copies. Through the Wayback Machine, you can see what the web looked like in 1996. It’s just one arm of Kahle’s ambitious goal to provide the world with universal access to all knowledge. Digitalmuseums - Computer & Hardware History. New Page 1. Internet Archive: Petabox. The Previous Version The PetaBox(tm), custom-designed by Internet Archive staff, was originally created to safely store and process one petabyte (a million gigabytes) of information.
The goals and design points were: * Low power: 6kW per rack, 60kW for the entire storage cluster * High density: 100+ TB/rack * Local computing to process the data (800 low-end PC's) * Multi-OS possible, linux standard * Co-location friendly * Shipping container friendly: Able to be run in a 20' by 8' by 8' shipping container. * Easy Maintenance: One system administrator per petabyte * Software to automate full mirroring * Easy to scale * Inexpensive design * Inexpensive storage The Internet Archive data center now houses ~3PB of PetaBox storage technology and is expanding steadily.
International School of Information Science (ISIS) "This webpage is no longer available", is the sentence familiar to you? This is no longer a problem since a complete archive for webpages is now available. Through the Internet Archive, you can retrieve expired webpages, trace the development of websites, and go back to events that have shaken the world. The Internet Archive is a complete snapshot of all webpages on every website since 1996 until today. Following an agreement with the San Francisco team, the BA Internet Archive incorporated the second-generation machine for web archiving—the Petabox ( )This is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte (a million gigabytes) of data.
The machine features low power consumption, support for multiple operating systems, easy maintenance and software to automate mirroring. The machines assembled in San Francisco accommodated 1.5 petabytes of data in 23 racks. The BA Internet Archive is the first center of its kind established outside US borders. International School of Information Science (ISIS) Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Apple Computer. Preorder Mac OS 8 Now you can preorder Mac OS 8, described by Macworld as "the most comprehensive update to the Mac OS in years, sporting a bold new look, a speedier Finder, more shortcuts and integrated Internet functions. " Want a PowerBook? Qualify to win a PowerBook 3400/200 by entering this month's Apple Registration Sweepstakes.
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