Searching E-phemera: "The average life of a Web page is 100 days," said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. "If we don't aggressively go and archive these materials that we're depending on, not just for scholarship but for cultural fun and trivial pursuits, they will be gone forever." [...]
The Internet Archive at Archive.org boasts more than a few impressive numbers. Here's a sampling:
60 days: How often the archive collects a broad snapshot of the web.
100 days: How often, on average, web pages are changed or deleted.
10 years: The amount of time the archive has been operating.
300: The amount of requests the Wayback Machine search engine receives per second.
2,300: The number of servers used at the archive's San Francisco location. Each holds about a terabyte, or 1,024 gigabytes, of information.
50,000: The number of 30 gigabyte iPods needed to store the archive's collected information.
90,000: The number of audio recordings, concerts and lectures on the nonweb archive.
1.5 million: Total amount of memory, in gigabtyes, on Archive.org's web project.
61 million: The number of unique pages in the archive's Hurricane Katrina collection, all text searchable, from over 1,700 different sites.
85 billion: The number of pages on the current archive. That's a 13-page website for each man, woman and child on Earth.
