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Gregg Mayer is a journalist and lawyer with a keen interest in the rapidly evolving world of e-Discovery. Gregg has published numerous articles, including writing for law journals and the American Bar Association. Gregg served as editor-in-chief of the Mississippi Law Journal. Before practicing law, Gregg worked as a newspaper reporter for six years.
Archiving The Internet – One Snapshot At A Time
Posted by Gregg Mayer on Friday, April 11th, 2008
CIOs undoubtedly have a difficult job – managing a companywide ESI archive in a demanding e-Discovery world.
Now imagine having to archive everything on the Internet. Of course, no one can do it. But a multiplicity of Websites around the world are trying the next best thing:
By virtue of its shear enormity and its warp-speed evolution, the task of archiving the internet in its entirety is clearly impossible, like trying to catalog every grain of sand on the world’s beaches. But as it is easy to take a photograph of a beach, it also is possible to grab snapshots of the internet, or specific portions of it, to preserve for future generations.
And that’s exactly what researchers at the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and libraries worldwide are working on.
There have been some remarkable strides already, starting with the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, where its creator hopes to build a sort of second coming of the Library of Alexandria, the long-ago destroyed institution that housed much of the ancient world’s recorded knowledge.
The project has archived some 85 billion web pages on computers that measure data in unfathomably large quantities called petabytes.
One petabyte, by the way, is the equivalent of approximately 20,000 personal computers with 50-gigabyte hard drives. It’s a lot of stuff.
Read the rest of this fun article here in The Star Ledger.
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