Feb 27, 2020
The Dad Question Episode: A Simple Question, Why Did The
Internet Archive Even Happen, What Even Is All This, The Infinite
Growth, What Data Really Is, The Handfuls Taken From The Ocean,
Towards the Future.
A simple question from my Dad forces me to explain
how we got into this mess and how we're going to have to keep in
it, even in the face of impossibility.
The URL https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg is not the
most perfect page and not set up for easy understanding of what
it's talking about, but it is the most up to date indicator of how
much data is floating into the Internet Archive and how it's
handling it.
With an understanding and a stress that not all of the used disk
space is "stuff" you can browse or necessarily related directly to
Internet Archive stored items, over 60 petabytes of unique disk
space has been stored by all operations and that's at least 120
petabytes of real hard drives.