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'SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to
something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been
introduced to the Internet Archive.
The nonprofit, founded in 1996, is a digital library of internet sites and
cultural artifacts. This includes hundreds of billions of copies of government
websites, news articles and data. The Wayback Machine is the archive's access
point to nearly three decades of web history. But many of the million or so
daily visitors that flock to the Internet Archive's online address might not
know anything about its physical one: an old Christian Science church in the
Bay Area.
The headquarters of the Internet Archive, an impressive white-columned, Greek
revival-style temple, rises just south of the Golden Gate bridge.
Near the entrance of the building's nave, a triptych of towering black computer
servers are humming loudly.
"That is the Internet Archive," said Mark Graham, the director of the Internet
Archive's Wayback Machine, pointing to the server stacks. Graham was leading
about a dozen visitors on a weekly public tour of the headquarters on a recent
Friday in March. He projected his voice to be heard over the drone of the
computers. "Those machines are servers that are being used right now to record
and save material. The lights are blinking — that means that something is being
written to read from those hard drives."'
I strongly support the Internet Archive. I have made this pilgrimage myself
and once spent a couple of weeks there working on an Internet Archive project.
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
