The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Now Home to 85 Billion Archived Web Pages
According to a new post by Internet Archive founder, Brewster Kahle, The Wayback Machine now provides access to 85,898,456,616 archived web pages. The number (85 billion) is now posted on The Wayback Machine site. Previously, IA/Wayback used a total size count of 55 Billion archived pages.

Kahle’s post also says:

The Wayback Machine is a database that serves thousands of users every day, and currently gets 300 requests per second. The database contains over 1.5 petabytes of data that came from the web (that is 1.5 million gigabytes) which makes it one of the largest databases of any kind.

See Also: The Internet Archive Was Recently Awarded $100,000 at the First Annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration

Congrats to Brewster and the rest of the IA team.

Source: IA

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