Tag: archive
Facebook hosts 4% of all the photos EVER TAKEN IN THE WORLD
Here's a pretty mad statistic; according to photo sharing site 1000memories.com, Facebook now host 4% of all the photographs ever taken. EVER. That equates to an estimated 140 billion photos of the 3.5 trillion thought to have been taken since…
Web archivist saves 172 axed BBC websites in torrent time capsule
A plucky BBC fan has set about the task of archiving almost 200 Beeb websites before distributing them online in a single torrent file. The BBC plan to cull some 172 of their websites in a massive cost-cutting measure, citing…
US Library of Congress to archive every public tweet … ever!
You might want to start editing your loose-talking tweets on Twitter, as the US Library of Congress have just announced plans to archive every public tweet, ever! The largest library in the world, the Library of Congress archives data of…
Acer launch the Aspire easyStore H340 for all your digital data archiving needs
Computers get smaller, file sizes get bigger. Fact. But where to store all of our fancy new HD media and lossless sound files? Acer's Aspire easyStore H340 is one way to keep all your files safely stored away. The Aspire…
Over a decade of web archives blocked by Demon's overzealous "dirty old men" filter
Yet again it seems that systems designed to block out illegal/deemed objectionable content have gon into overdrive and blocked a huge chunk of the Internet, including the company itself.
If you haven’t discovered the Wayback Machine before, it’s a massive archive of what’s been published online since 1996. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that, amongst that hideously large (but interesting) archive will be some material that some deem inappropriate. This seems to have triggered Demon Internet’s IWF-inspired filters to block the entire archive, including pages of — yep, you’ve guessed it — Demon and its owners Thus Internet, plus the IWF…
Google to start archiving 30 glorious years of Page 3 stunnas, with its Newspaper Search
Google will soon start the mammoth task of scanning in decades worth of old newspapers, allowing us to finally search information and news from before the internet period. Everything that happened in the 1980s will start to exist again.
In a similar fashion to Google’s impressive but under-the-radar Book Search, the newspaper service will let us browse through old papers, bringing entire pages up as zoomable, Google Maps-style images. The Times already does…
