I recently was searching for evidence of web existence of a site, and of course Wayback was my first thought. So I put in the address, and couldn't find anything relevant (a redirection error was the best hit I got). Then I realized, duh... What I was looking for was in the late 90s, maybe 2000, and the notion of preserving the web hadn't become a thing yet. So this is what happens without such efforts, things are really lost to memory and maybe snippets of references here and there if lucky.
Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day
Submitted 3 days ago by ryujin470@fedia.io to technology@beehaw.org
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Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 days ago
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
The Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 days ago
They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Wow. That’s massive! Good on them.
I kind of wish they had a way people could contribute to hosting? Torrents? IPFS?
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
Donating?
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
I have compute. But I am dirt poor ahah.
ech@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Or 150 TB, for the correct way to write it.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 days ago
Yeah but that isn’t as impressive sounding.
Did you know the wayback machine saves 150,000,000,000,000 bytes worth of webpages every day?! If you stacked 150,000,000,000,000 bytes end to end, they would reach from earth to the moon and back SEVEN TIMES! That’s enough bytes to fill 18 American football stadiums!
Dionysus@leminal.space 3 days ago
But how many Olympic sized pools? That’s the only measurement I learned in school.
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Pfft, the wayback machine saves 1,200,000,000,000,000 bits every day! That’s way more impressive then your piddly 150,000,000,000,000.