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Internet Archive Celebrates 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived (archive.org)

(Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:30PM (BeauHD) from the 30-years-on dept.)


[1]alternative_right shares a report from the Internet Archive:

> This October, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: [2]1 trillion web pages archived . That's one trillion memories, moments, and movements -- preserved for the public and available to access via the Wayback Machine.

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> We'll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22, 2025, with a global event: a party at our San Francisco headquarters and a livestream for friends and supporters around the world. More than a celebration, it's a tribute to what we've built together: a free and open digital library of the web.



[1] https://slashdot.org/~alternative_right

[2] https://blog.archive.org/event/the-web-weve-built-celebrating-1-trillion-web-pages-archived/



Offshore backups? (Score:1)

by greytree ( 7124971 )

Please, tech billionaires of the world, fund some offshore backups of archive.org

Re: Offshore backups? (Score:2)

by Slartibartfast ( 3395 ) *

They already do -- they have a duplicate site in Egypt.

I remember when they started... (Score:2)

by Slartibartfast ( 3395 ) *

It seemed crazy then.

It's far, far crazier now.

You now have Asian Flu.