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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt stores copies of every web page published since 1996, with 1.5 petabytes of data stored on 880 computers. The collection is available for free and is the first of its kind outside the US.
If you’ve ever used the online Wayback Machine to find an old website, you know that old web pages are kept somewhere. But where? Alexandria, famous for being the site of one of the largest libraries of the ancient world, is now home to the modern Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) keeps copies of every web page published since 1996. The Internet Archive, born in San Francisco in 1996, signed an agreement with the BA in 2002 to create backups for its archives, which have the capacity to contain 3.7 petabytes of information. That’s a lot of data. Currently, the BA has about 1.5 petabytes of information stored on 880 computers, but this is constantly expanding. The entire collection is available free to anyone with a computer, a browser and an Internet connection. The BA Archive is the first collection of its kind established outside the United States.
Learn more about Internet archiving:
Web pages, Egyptian and US television broadcasts, archival films, and digitized books from 1996 to 2007 are all available at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Digital archivist Brewster Kahle, creator of the Internet Archive, implemented the Wayback Machine in 2001.
The Internet Archive Project is funded through traditional libraries and private donations.
