Wayback Machine saves 150000 GB of webpages every day

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• ech@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or 150 TB, for the correct way to write it.

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!

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    • Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But how many Olympic sized pools? That’s the only measurement I learned in school.

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    • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They started in 2001 archiving pages back to 1995. I guess it was luck of the draw what got saved then.

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• FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wow. That’s massive! Good on them.

  I kind of wish they had a way people could contribute to hosting? Torrents? IPFS?

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Donating?

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    • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have compute. But I am dirt poor ahah.

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