Mark Graham

And the net result of it is that we add more than a billion archived URLs to the Wayback Machine every day. And this material, as it's added to the Wayback Machine, is indexed and it's immediately available to people who go to web.archive.org, enter in a URL, and then are able to see a history of archives that we have of the web page that was available from the URL at any given time.

Well, as an American, my tax dollars help pay for some of this stuff. And then much of it is maybe a benefit to people. Certainly, my first reaction is, hmm, that might not be such a good thing. I do want to underscore that there is the National Archives and Records Administration that does do archiving as well.

Well, as an American, my tax dollars help pay for some of this stuff. And then much of it is maybe a benefit to people. Certainly, my first reaction is, hmm, that might not be such a good thing. I do want to underscore that there is the National Archives and Records Administration that does do archiving as well.

Well, as an American, my tax dollars help pay for some of this stuff. And then much of it is maybe a benefit to people. Certainly, my first reaction is, hmm, that might not be such a good thing. I do want to underscore that there is the National Archives and Records Administration that does do archiving as well.

But for whatever reason, we seem to be like one of the main players in the space of trying to archive much of the public web, including and right now especially U.S. government websites and making those archives available in near real time.

But for whatever reason, we seem to be like one of the main players in the space of trying to archive much of the public web, including and right now especially U.S. government websites and making those archives available in near real time.

But for whatever reason, we seem to be like one of the main players in the space of trying to archive much of the public web, including and right now especially U.S. government websites and making those archives available in near real time.

This is pretty normal in some respects. It's normal and expected and it's what's happened, frankly, for each administration in the time that we've been working on this effort. Look, it's under new management, right? For example, you wouldn't expect the WhiteHouse.gov website under any new presidential administration to be the same as it was before.

This is pretty normal in some respects. It's normal and expected and it's what's happened, frankly, for each administration in the time that we've been working on this effort. Look, it's under new management, right? For example, you wouldn't expect the WhiteHouse.gov website under any new presidential administration to be the same as it was before.

This is pretty normal in some respects. It's normal and expected and it's what's happened, frankly, for each administration in the time that we've been working on this effort. Look, it's under new management, right? For example, you wouldn't expect the WhiteHouse.gov website under any new presidential administration to be the same as it was before.

So we go out of our way to try to anticipate the frequency in which web pages should be archived so that we got a pretty good shot at getting those changes.

So we go out of our way to try to anticipate the frequency in which web pages should be archived so that we got a pretty good shot at getting those changes.

So we go out of our way to try to anticipate the frequency in which web pages should be archived so that we got a pretty good shot at getting those changes.

No, that's true.

No, that's true.

No, that's true.

It's different. It's certainly different in terms of the number, seemingly. I mean, we're still in the early stages of this administration. But yeah, I'd say on the face of it, you're right. Historically, we haven't seen major U.S. government websites taken offline like we did, say, for example, with regard to USAID. But...

It's different. It's certainly different in terms of the number, seemingly. I mean, we're still in the early stages of this administration. But yeah, I'd say on the face of it, you're right. Historically, we haven't seen major U.S. government websites taken offline like we did, say, for example, with regard to USAID. But...

It's different. It's certainly different in terms of the number, seemingly. I mean, we're still in the early stages of this administration. But yeah, I'd say on the face of it, you're right. Historically, we haven't seen major U.S. government websites taken offline like we did, say, for example, with regard to USAID. But...

And I'm going to leave that kind of analysis to others and really just focus on trying to archive the material.