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Inside the Old Church Where One Trillion Webpages Are Being Saved
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, housed in a former church, logged its trillionth page last month, preserving hundreds of millions of web pages daily for public access.
- Last month the Wayback Machine logged its trillionth saved page at the Internet Archive, which operates from a former Christian Scientist church near the Presidio of San Francisco.
- The White House in January ordered vast government webpages removed, while more content hidden behind paywalls and AI chatbots increased urgency to preserve online records.
- Saving closer to 150 terabytes per day, the Internet Archive stores full page assets to replay pages and the Wayback Machine records AI outputs like ChatGPT answers.
- The Internet Archive's records have enabled accountability for altered webpages, as saved pages since 2004 helped journalists reconstruct content and global archive copies protect against disasters.
- Amid rising AI and shifting distribution of content, most servers sit in a warehouse outside San Francisco while symbolic sanctuary servers inside the former church emphasize collective knowledge protection.
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