Mark Graham

and those four news organizations from hong kong that i mentioned we have built a full text index of the articles from those news sites but there are many many other reasons why a given site may make maybe the hard drives that it that the website was running on crashed Or maybe there was just a change in the content management system.

and those four news organizations from hong kong that i mentioned we have built a full text index of the articles from those news sites but there are many many other reasons why a given site may make maybe the hard drives that it that the website was running on crashed Or maybe there was just a change in the content management system.

and those four news organizations from hong kong that i mentioned we have built a full text index of the articles from those news sites but there are many many other reasons why a given site may make maybe the hard drives that it that the website was running on crashed Or maybe there was just a change in the content management system.

And when the upgrade was done, the people doing the engineering behind it didn't put in the redirects. And so all those old parts of the site are no longer available. I used to work for NBC News. And I mean, we had more than 100 websites that we were running at one point. And when we were doing upgrades, the last thing we'd be thinking about is the old stuff.

And when the upgrade was done, the people doing the engineering behind it didn't put in the redirects. And so all those old parts of the site are no longer available. I used to work for NBC News. And I mean, we had more than 100 websites that we were running at one point. And when we were doing upgrades, the last thing we'd be thinking about is the old stuff.

And when the upgrade was done, the people doing the engineering behind it didn't put in the redirects. And so all those old parts of the site are no longer available. I used to work for NBC News. And I mean, we had more than 100 websites that we were running at one point. And when we were doing upgrades, the last thing we'd be thinking about is the old stuff.

It'd all be like, well, how do we meet the deadline to get the new stuff out?

It'd all be like, well, how do we meet the deadline to get the new stuff out?

It'd all be like, well, how do we meet the deadline to get the new stuff out?

Many of those conditions are still with us. They're not fundamentally changing. For those reasons, stuff still is going to atrophy. Also, as the web gets older, The older stuff gets older too. People die. The legacy often of an individual's efforts then falls on the heirs or their friends. I can't tell you.

Many of those conditions are still with us. They're not fundamentally changing. For those reasons, stuff still is going to atrophy. Also, as the web gets older, The older stuff gets older too. People die. The legacy often of an individual's efforts then falls on the heirs or their friends. I can't tell you.

Many of those conditions are still with us. They're not fundamentally changing. For those reasons, stuff still is going to atrophy. Also, as the web gets older, The older stuff gets older too. People die. The legacy often of an individual's efforts then falls on the heirs or their friends. I can't tell you.

Literally every day here at the Interim Archive, we get communications, principally on emails or DMs or things like that from people saying, Hey, my husband or this organization I worked with, the person has passed away and we're going to shut down the website. We want to make sure that it's preserved. Often we will have already done that. Here's a recent case.

Literally every day here at the Interim Archive, we get communications, principally on emails or DMs or things like that from people saying, Hey, my husband or this organization I worked with, the person has passed away and we're going to shut down the website. We want to make sure that it's preserved. Often we will have already done that. Here's a recent case.

Literally every day here at the Interim Archive, we get communications, principally on emails or DMs or things like that from people saying, Hey, my husband or this organization I worked with, the person has passed away and we're going to shut down the website. We want to make sure that it's preserved. Often we will have already done that. Here's a recent case.

MTV News was shut down and people said, oh, you know, what did you do? Did you have to jump into action and archive it? It's like, no, no. Our work was done. We had been archiving. I mean, if that was what we had to do, then we would have failed because it's too late, right? Our work had been done over the decades.

MTV News was shut down and people said, oh, you know, what did you do? Did you have to jump into action and archive it? It's like, no, no. Our work was done. We had been archiving. I mean, if that was what we had to do, then we would have failed because it's too late, right? Our work had been done over the decades.

MTV News was shut down and people said, oh, you know, what did you do? Did you have to jump into action and archive it? It's like, no, no. Our work was done. We had been archiving. I mean, if that was what we had to do, then we would have failed because it's too late, right? Our work had been done over the decades.

We call it the Wayback Machine as if it's like a computer that's sitting on somebody's desk. It's actually a whole network of literally hundreds of nodes as part of our overall infrastructure of the Internet Archive of thousands of nodes. more than 100 petabyte of material growing at the rate of more than 60 terabyte a day.

We call it the Wayback Machine as if it's like a computer that's sitting on somebody's desk. It's actually a whole network of literally hundreds of nodes as part of our overall infrastructure of the Internet Archive of thousands of nodes. more than 100 petabyte of material growing at the rate of more than 60 terabyte a day.