[LINK] Fwd: Behind The Scenes At Your Local Digital Library

Sat Jun 20 10:47:07 AEST 2020

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From: "Internet Archive" 
To: "Janet Whitaker" 
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Sent: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:16:40 +0000
Subject: Behind The Scenes At Your Local Digital Library
Behind The Scenes At Your Local Digital Library      

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	Through the first half of 2020, the Internet Archive has seen
unprecedented traffic and faced challenges we’ve never experienced
before. Thanks to our generous supporters and the tireless work of our
team, however, we’ve been able to make improvements to our systems,
increase our bandwidth, and stay online.

 The Internet Archive has long been an indispensable resource for
researchers, students, journalists, and curious citizens everywhere...
and when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we saw a huge spike in traffic.
With quarantines, curfews, and stay-at-home orders in effect around
the world, people have been relying on the Internet Archive for
entertainment [3], education [4], and the preservation of history as
it unfolds [5]. Our community is reading books [6], watching movies
[7], listening to music [8], playing games [9], and tuning in to old
time radio [10].

 A year ago, our users were consuming just over 9 petabytes of data
per month; today it’s over 18 petabytes per month, which is
equivalent to _9 trillion_ pages of printed text. Although most of
our staff is working remotely, we managed to get new infrastructure up
and running, expanding our bandwidth and ensuring that you can
continue to access the Internet Archive. You can read more about the
people who made it possible [11] on our blog! (Hint: our supporters
were a huge help.)  

		 BEHIND THE SCENES [12] 

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	What does this increased bandwidth provide access to? Here are a few
fun facts: 

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	The Internet Archive currently holds 21 million books and texts, 3.3
million movies and videos, 400,000 software programs, 7.5 million
audio files, and 384 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine.  
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	All that adds up to about 60 petabytes of data. If you stored all 60
petabytes of data as MP3s, they would take about 120,000 years to
play. If you put it all on a series of 1 GB flash drives and laid them
end-to-end, it would stretch more than 1,800 miles long.  
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	We store all this data ourselves, rather than contracting it out to
corporations. The primary copy of the Internet Archive is stored in
our headquarters—a former church in San Francisco—but we also have
backups in Canada, the Netherlands, and Egypt.  

	Right now we’re getting over 4.2 million unique visitors every
day. Our usage statistics are public, and you can view them at
https://archive.org/stats/ [14]!  

		 SEE THE STATS [15] 

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	Our massive library includes millions of user contributions, uploaded
by ordinary people who care about Universal Access to All Knowledge.
If you have an archive.org account [17], you can easily upload images,
texts, videos, and other files on your own using this basic guide
[18]. But if you’d rather just browse the archive—read books
online [19], listen to recorded concerts [20], do some genealogy
research [21], watch cartoons [22], explore the cosmos [23], or play
some Pac-Man [24]—our doors are always open.  

		 START EXPLORING [25] 

	Thanks for being a part of our community; we hope that the Internet
Archive is proving useful to you during this turbulent time. Enjoy
your library!

 -The Internet Archive Team  

	_If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the Internet
Archive, we would greatly appreciate your support. Thank you for
helping us provide Universal Access To All Knowledge. _  

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[1] https://archive.org/?iax=srvrs%7Ctpbnr
[2]
https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/?iax=srvrs%7Cimglnk
[3]
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/16/7-things-to-do-if-you-cant-leave-the-house/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[4]
https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/11/schools-out-or-is-it/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[5]
https://blogarchive.org/2020/02/13/archiving-information-on-the-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[6] https://openlibrary.org/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[7] https://archive.org/details/feature_films/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[8] https://archive.org/details/etree/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[9]
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[10] https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[11]
https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[12]
https://blog.archive.org/2020/05/11/thank-you-for-helping-us-increase-our-bandwidth/?iax=srvrs%7Cctalnk
[13] https://archive.org/?iax=srvrs%7Cimglnk1
[14] https://archive.org/stats/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[15] https://archive.org/stats/?iax=srvrs%7Cctalnk
[16] https://archive.org/?iax=srvrs%7Cimglnk2
[17] https://archive.org/account/login.createaccount.php
[18]
https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360002360111-Uploading-A-Basic-Guide
[19] https://openlibrary.org/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk2
[20] https://archive.org/details/etree/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk2
[21] https://archive.org/details/genealogy/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[22] https://archive.org/details/more_animation/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[23]
https://archive.org/details/nasaimageofthedaygallery/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk
[24]
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/?iax=srvrs%7Ctxtlnk2
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[26] https://archive.org/donate/?iax=srvrs%7Ccta
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