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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.

>

> 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.

IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or
equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to
spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it
inevitably unsuccessful.
V. All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
Psychic forces are sufficient in most bodies for a shock to propel
them directly away from the earth's surface. A spooky noise or an
adversary's signature sound will induce motion upward, usually to
the cradle of a chandelier, a treetop, or the crest of a flagpole.
The feet of a character who is running or the wheels of a speeding
auto need never touch the ground, especially when in flight.
VI. As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a
character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of
altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common
as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled. A "wacky"
character has the option of self-replication only at manic high
speeds and may ricochet off walls to achieve the velocity required.
-- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980