[ANNOUNCE] TOMORROW(Thurs)=The Internet Archieve's 25th anniv by Scott Granneman

Thurs 21 Oct 2021 The Internet Archieve turns 25 yrs old! by Scott Granneman We'll start at 6:30pm w very brief announcements are important questions. By 6:35 or 6:40pm, we should be having our speaker for this evening, Scott Granneman. In 1996, a young computer scientist named Brewster Kahle dreamed of building a Library of Everything on the Internet. He called it the Internet Archive. This year on Oct 21, the Internet Archive is turning 25. So, Scott Granneman of SLUUG will take us down memory lane. Scott has pulled various gems from the Archieve for classes he's taught at Wash U & Webster U. Scott will give us a flavor of what goodies are available. After Scott's talk, we can stay in our StL mtng and chat about general Linux things, or go way back with Brewster Kahle to the early days of the Internet... anniversary.archive.org Join the Virtual Celebration from San Francisco and elsewhere on Zoom. The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library in the heart of the Richmond District in San Francisco, CA. It convenes the Decentralized Web Summit (https://decentralizedweb.net/) and other events. ================================ What's in The Archive... Official Internet Archive Statistics for 2020 GENERAL • 70+ unique petabytes of data (that’s 70,000,000 gigabytes!) • 65+ million public media items (texts, movies, audio, images, etc.) • 1.5 million unique web site users per day • 17,000 uploads from users per day WAYBACK MACHINE • 588 billion web pages • 750 million pages captured per day • 550,000 users per day ARCHIVE-IT • 49 billion curated URLs captured in 14,000 collections • 800+ partner organizations creating collections BOOKS • 28 million texts in the collections (books, documents, magazines, etc.) • 4.6 million books digitized by Internet Archive • 3,500 books digitized per day in 18 digitization centers worldwide TELEVISION • 2 million news programs available for closed caption search • 3,000 broadcast hours from the events of 9/11/01 MOVIES • 4 million movie items (not including television programs) AUDIO • 14 million audio items, including • 220,000 live music concerts from 8,000 bands • 200,000 78rpm sides digitized SOFTWARE • 580,000 software titles, many emulatable through a web browser IMAGES • 3.5 million images