Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center

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The Wayback Machine stores 85 billion Web pages dating back to '96

By Lucas Mearian

March 19, 2009 (Computerworld) The Internet Archive organization plans next week to announce the opening of a new data center to house two petabytes of information for its Wayback Machine, the digital time capsule that stores archived versions of Web pages dating back to 1996.

For example, this is what Computerworld's Web site looked like in 1997, what http://www.google.com/">Google looked like in 1998 and what CNN looked like in 2000.

The Wayback Machine houses 85 billion Web pages archived for more than a dozen years, which amounts to three petabytes of data, or about 150 times the content of the Library of Congress. Only five years ago, the Wayback Machine contained about 30 billion Web pages. It is expected to continue to grow by 100TB of data per month now that it's live.

The Internet Archive's massive database is mirrored to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new Library of Alexandria in Egypt, for disaster recovery purposes.

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