The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web 135
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.
Re:The more you know. (Score:1, Informative)
Incorrect. A kibibyte is 1024 bytes, while a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. [wikipedia.org]
I don't usually care enough to point out the distinction, but since you did, I figured a correction was appropriate.
Domain parkers deleting archives (Score:5, Informative)
I don't know if they have done anything about this recently, but there was a problem with domain parking sites putting up a robots.txt that instructs Archive.org to delete or suppress any archives of the site that was there previously. Have run in to a few sites like that. If someone dies and their site goes with them, it isn't right for some squatter to remove their work from history.
And I wish I could pull up historic copies of the original altavista.digital.com.
Re:looks like you forgot to add '-h' switch (Score:3, Informative)
looks like you forgot to spell pebibytes correctly
Re:looks like you forgot to add '-h' switch (Score:5, Informative)
You have that backwards, kilo, mega, giga, tera and so forth are base ten prefixes and have been for quite a bit longer than people have been misusing them to refer to base 2 numbers. As such it made more sense to leave it consistent with everything else and make a new prefix for the binary numbers.
Were's my page then? (Score:3, Informative)