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24 april 2005
There's a group who's archiving every page on the Internet. Every one. Every two months. And it's a free search. I experimentally took a look for Raymond's page--sure enough, it was last snapshotted in late 2004--including all its archives. This is an astounding resource.
Posted by ypsidixit at 24 april 2005 18:57
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When he takes his snapshot every 2 months, the amount of new info that is added is equivalent to the amount of info that is in the Library of Congress, which has 26,000,000 books.
Posted by: Laura at 24 april 2005 19:09
WOW!!! this is really terrific, Laura. Thank you!
Posted by: addiann at 24 april 2005 20:19
They also offer free hosting to public domain and Creative Commons licensed video, audio and text.
Check out the Prelinger archives for some amazing finds. Steve Cherry even uploaded a bunch of Ypsi scanner recordings.
Posted by: George Hotelling at 24 april 2005 21:45
Addiann: you're welcome. This seems useful for dead bookmarks and dead links and such when you've got the url. From now on nothing dies.
George: I thought I had heard that term "Prelinger" before; it must have been on Steve's site. I'll check out the P. archives; thanks George.
These folks must have an underground salt mine's worth of servers somewhere.
On the Media profiled a guy connected with this archive tonight. He was very blase about archiving the known universe, of webpages, anyways.
Posted by: Laura at 24 april 2005 22:52