Internet Archive Celebrates 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived

alternative_right shares a report from the Internet Archive: This October, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to access via the Wayback Machine.

We'll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event: a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it's a tribute to what we've built together: a free and open digital library of the web.

Offshore backups?

[greytree]

Please, tech billionaires of the world, fund some offshore backups of archive.org

Re: Offshore backups?

[Slartibartfast]

They already do -- they have a duplicate site in Egypt.

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[spiritplumber]

You mean Osaze. You mean Misrayim. (If you know you know - deus nolens exitus!)

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[greytree]

You mean Bibliotheca Alexandrina ?

Then nope: It only has the web pages ( so not books, films, music, etc. ) and only up to 2007:

https://www.bibalex.org/isis/FrontEnd/archive/Archive_Web.aspx

We still need that billionaire.

Remember the library of Alexandria

[Bruce66423]

That got burnt down?

NOT an encouraging omen, though Wikipedia suggests that its destruction wasn't deliberate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

I remember when they started...

[Slartibartfast]

It seemed crazy then.
It's far, far crazier now.

OpenAI : hold my beer

[thesjaakspoiler]

OpenAI must have lurked in a billion million more pages due to all the vibe coding.

They are starting to skip stuff

[greytree]

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-wayback-machines-snapshots-of-news-homepages-plummet-after-a-breakdown-in-archiving-projects/

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[WaterFoodEarthCosmos]

Reading that Nieman Lab report By Andrew Deck and Hanaa' Tameez it seem they have over-sighted at the very least that some types of archives if they have been using the Wayback Machine for the Internet Archive is that roughly six month some types of archives are embargoed and released later. Been going on for quite some time when I have used it.

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[greytree]

+1 informative

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[WaterFoodEarthCosmos]

Thank you!

Unique pages?

[drinkypoo]

Are those 1T unique URLs?

How many of those are 404s where the site doesn't actually send a 404 error? I see a lot of those in the archive when I'm trying to find things.

Well, what was #1,000,000,000,000?

[sabbede]

I can't be the only one who wants to know what page put them over the top, can I?