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"Non-profit digital library and creator of the WayBack Machine, the Internet Archive, is attempting to raise enough funds to buy 4 petabytes of storage before the year's end. So far, the archive has only brought in 25% of its total goal, or one petabyte of storage.\r\n\r\nAs of October 2012, the Internet Archive maintained approximately\u00A010 petabytes of material, and if\u00A0the service continues at its rate of storing ~190 terabytes per month, it will be able to continue storing data for a little under two more years (5.4 months = ~ 1 petabyte).\r\n\r\nWhether or not you're interested in donating to this cause, it's important to remember that the Internet Archive has played an incredible role in\u00A0chronicling\u00A0the Web's evolution over the past 16 years.\r\n\r\nAs we've detailed before, the Wayback Machine is\u00A0still the absolute best resource for revealing the ghosts of the Internet\u2019s past. Spend some time searching and you\u2019ll find many lost and defunct websites that heavily influenced the modern web.\u00A0A 1997\u00A0snapshot of\u00A0Apple.com\u00A0feels like a scamming knock-off, while Amazon\u2019s\u00A0earliest iterations\u00A0aren\u2019t much different from its latest design.\u00A0Google.com\u2019s first iterations\u00A0aren\u2019t pretty either, especially the\u00A0horrific 3D logo\u00A0from 1998, while Google was still hosted on Stanford\u2019s servers.\r\nLuckily, an anonymous donor has agreed to match\u00A0all donations three-to-one through the end of the year. Head to the donation page via the link below to learn more.\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Internet Archive Donations\r\n\r\nImage credit:\u00A0Jupiterimages / Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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