Reading up on Internet Archive
3 deep · digging since jan 18
- Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
Researchers crawled 657,607 links across the web and found that most point to vanished pages, revealing widespread link rot and the disappearance of early web content.
- Logo Modernism : Jens Muller, R. Roger Remington : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A book documenting modernist logo design from 1940-1980, showcasing over 6,000 trademarks and their aesthetic evolution.
- Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
The article details the Internet Archive's custom PetaBox storage infrastructure, its engineering evolution since 2004, and the financial and operational challenges of preserving over 212 petabytes of web data.