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MY ONLINE MEMORY–Guest Curating the Archive by Jessamyn West

I work at the Internet Archive via the Open Library project but I was a crate digger here long before that. My earliest memories of the Archive are using the Wayback Machine to find old copies of my first web … Continue reading

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News from the Archive 0007: Librivox, Back Forty, It’s a Gas!

No. 7, 15 February 2013 Thanks! We’re grateful to everyone who helped with our end of the year campaign to get four new Petaboxes; that’s four thousand terabytes of storage. We look forward to filling the fifteen hundred plus hard … Continue reading

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News from the Archive 0006: New Petabox, Decoding, and Balloons

No. 6, 14 December 2012 One down, three to go! With help from a generous, anonymous donor who’s matching other donations three to one through the end of the year, we now have enough funding to buy a new Petabox! … Continue reading

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News from the Archive 0005: BBC Visit, Rocketship X-M, and Alice

No. 5, 31 October 2012 A BBC film crew visited the Internet Archive; here’s their story. In addition, the San Francisco Chronicle did a nice profile of our work: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Brewster-Kahle-s-Internet-Archive-3946898.php From the Archive’s Mailbox I’ve just downloaded an image file … Continue reading

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News from the Archive 0004: Petabytes, Recap, and Ramadan

No. 4, 5 September 2012 Another Day, Another Petabyte Did you wonder where the Internet Archive stores millions of books, movies, recordings, and 150 billion web pages? Not in some conceptual cloud, but on our custom-designed Petabox servers, that’s where. … Continue reading

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News from the Internet Archive 0003: BitTorrent, Radiators, and The Atom Strikes!

No. 3, 7 August 2012 Brewster’s Report The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, … Continue reading

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News from the Internet Archive: 0002

News from the Internet Archive No. 2, 24 July 2012 Which Came First? Anyone visiting the Internet Archive’s Internet site has seen our logo: an abstract rendering of a classical building with four columns. And anyone visiting our San Francisco … Continue reading

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News from the Internet Archive: 0001

News from the Internet Archive No. 1, 18 June 2012 In this issue, Archive-It’s two hundredth partner, picks from our collection, Brewster Kahle talks about Internet Archive news, and more. Internet Archive Sues to Stop New Washington State Law The … Continue reading

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