Thurs 18 Nov (rescheduled from Oct). 6:30pm The Internet Archive is one of the best things about the Web, and it deserves a careful examination and appreciation. This talk will look at the history, purpose, and amazingly complete features of the Internet Archive. I promise you will learn a lot of cool new things about the Internet Archive that you can immediately! by Scott Granneman The Internet Archive celebrated its 25th Anniversary 1 month ago on Oct 21. 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. The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library in the heart of San Francisco, CA. It convenes the Decentralized Web Summit (https://decentralizedweb.net/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://decentralizedweb.net/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0FBjAqgAsxIeB6KZrDc8Nx>) 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