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Saving the internet(on tape)
A guy in San Francisco is saving page he finds on the web to a tape
machine, and he's trying to find every page possible. I found the story
interesting because of the blase attitude about copyright and because of
the scale of the enterprise, which seemed smaller than one might expect:
From:http://www.slate.com/webhead/97-02-27/webhead.asp
The entire Word Wide Web
is currently estimated to contain about 1.5 terabytes (or
1.5 million megabytes) of data. Newsgroups, FTP
sites, and other Internet subsystems account for another
5.5 or so terabytes. (Compare these numbers with the
20 terabytes of ASCII data contained in the Library of
Congress' 20 million books or the 8 terabytes of data
at the average video store.) With tape-cassette storage
costing only $20 per gigabyte (1 billion bytes),
archiving the Internet is practically economical.
Karl Lietzan (^^;)
e-mail: lietk@ruby.ils.unc.edu
phone: (919) 967-2236
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