- A Trillion Web Pages Saved for the Public by the Wayback Machine
- Decades of digital history are stored in 100,000 TB and are snapshots of online memory.
- Daily users and researchers use archived pages to recover lost information.
The Internet Archive has reached a major milestone in information preservation, capturing a staggering 1 trillion web pages (1 followed by 12 zeros!) since it began backing up the World Wide Web nearly three decades ago.
An extensive collection, equivalent to more than 100,000 TB of data or approximately 21.3 million DVDs, is available through Wayback machinea tool that allows users to view archived versions of websites throughout the history of the Internet.
Since its inception in 1996, the Internet Archive has partnered with more than 1,200 libraries and institutions to create a shared digital library whose mission is to protect online content that might otherwise disappear.
500 million pages every day
This ranges from cultural recordings and news to personal blogs and closed sites such as Gawker and MTV News.
By preserving these fragments of the online world, it provides a reliable record of how information and culture have evolved online.
If you want to see what the earliest pages looked like, click Here. It is also worth checking out pages then and now to see how Apple, MicrosoftAnd GoogleThe company's websites have evolved over time.
The Wayback Machine processes approximately 500 million pages every day and serves approximately 800,000 visitors.
These visitors include scientists, journalists, students, and everyday users like me and, I suspect, you. When I encounter a missing page or link that returns an error, I often check the Wayback Machine. He doesn't always have a copy, but when he does, it's great.
The archives have been used for every proposal you could think of over the years, including immigration cases, memorial projects, and studies of disinformation and media history.
Examples include a Canadian musician who once relied on archived concert listings to support his residency application, and researchers at King's College London who are using them to trace how digital news and open data have evolved over time.
Investigators and journalists are also turning to the archive to verify deleted or altered material, increasing accountability online.
During the month of October, the Internet Archive celebrates the trillion page milestone. events honoring those who created and used the archive.
The meetings will also discuss the future of Internet preservation and how the public can continue to contribute to the Internet's collective memory.
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