Stl Linux Unix Users Group

The Internet Archive is one of the best things about the Web, and it deserves a careful examination and appreciation. This talk will look at the history, purpose, and amazingly complete features of the Internet Archive. I promise you will learn a lot of cool new things about the Internet Archive that you can immediately!

The Internet Archive celebrated its 25th Anniversary 1 month ago on Oct 21.

So, Scott Granneman of https://www.websanity.com/ will take us down memory lane.

Scott has pulled various gems from the Archieve for classes he's taught at Wash U & Webster U. Scott will give us a flavor of what goodies are available.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library in the heart of San Francisco, CA.

It convenes the Decentralized Web Summit (https://decentralizedweb.net/) and other events.

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What's in The Archive...

Official Internet Archive Statistics for 2020

GENERAL

• 70+ unique petabytes of data (that’s 70,000,000 gigabytes!)

• 65+ million public media items (texts, movies, audio, images, etc.)

• 1.5 million unique web site users per day

• 17,000 uploads from users per day

WAYBACK MACHINE

• 588 billion web pages

• 750 million pages captured per day

• 550,000 users per day

ARCHIVE-IT

• 49 billion curated URLs captured in 14,000 collections

• 800+ partner organizations creating collections

BOOKS

• 28 million texts in the collections (books, documents, magazines, etc.)

• 4.6 million books digitized by Internet Archive

• 3,500 books digitized per day in 18 digitization centers worldwide

TELEVISION

• 2 million news programs available for closed caption search

• 3,000 broadcast hours from the events of 9/11/01

MOVIES

• 4 million movie items (not including television programs)

AUDIO

• 14 million audio items, including

• 220,000 live music concerts from 8,000 bands

• 200,000 78rpm sides digitized

SOFTWARE

• 580,000 software titles, many emulatable through a web browser

IMAGES

• 3.5 million images