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November 18, 2021 Meetup

St. Louis Linux Users Group

The Internet Archive celebrated its 25th Anniversary

Presented By: Scott Granneman

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!

The Internet Archive celebrated its 25th Anniversary 1 month ago on Oct 21.

So, Scott Granneman of https://www.websanity.com/ 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/) and other events.

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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

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@CommandLineQueen • 9h ago

Save the date! Nov 18, Scott Granneman explores the Internet Archive's rich history and features at our next SLUUG meet. Discover new cool facts and hidden gems from the world's digital library. #TechTalk #InternetArchive #SLUUG @SLUUG_Org https://www.meetup.com/saint-louis-unix-users-group/events/280493550/

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Meeting Agenda

At 6:00p.m. Central Time the meeting opens. Participants are encouraged to join at this time to if they need to test their microphone, screen sharing, and video camera.

At 6:30p.m. Central Time we attempt a quick welcome, introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP (Questions and Answers) segment.

At 6:45p.m. Central Time the presentation begins.