The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web

An anonymous reader writes "Last night, the Internet Archive threw a party; hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated that the site had passed the 10,000,000,000,000,000 byte mark for archiving the Internet. As the non-profit digital library, known for its Wayback Machine service, points out, the organization has thus now saved 10 petabytes of cultural material." The announcement coincided with the release of an 80-terabyte dataset for researchers and, for the first time, the complete literature of a people: the Balinese.

Relevance of byte count

[Anonymous Coward]

How much of that is porn, I wonder.

Re:Relevance of byte count

[martin-boundary]

If only one of those files is a MP3, the RIAA is going to have an orgasm.

Balinese, huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, I guess they didn't have time to write much, being busy dealing with Orcs and Balrogs.

What about the Thorinim?

Indeed!

[Frosty Piss]

And nothing of value was saved...

Use prefixes.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's what they're for.
Counting zeroes is a chore.

Yes, but...

[Lordfly]

I need a car analogy about the Library of Congress before i can understand that number.

My Poor Infringed Copyright!!

[TechyImmigrant]

It looks like they've copied my website and are therefore infringing my copyright.

But I won't be suing them because I don't mind, because I'm not Apple.

Re:Relevance of byte count

[GofG]

There is a torrent on thepiratebay of every single geocities site. It's an archive, but i've downloaded it. What was your site? I'll rar it up for you.

Re:Relevance of byte count

[Raenex]

when copyright runs out

Thanks for the laugh.