Reading up on Wayback Machine
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.
- A lot of population numbers are fake
Census and population estimates in many countries are systematically inaccurate due to fraud, weak infrastructure, or political incentives, not merely benign error.
- 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.