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Archiving the Internet Archive?
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Forgive me because I'm not very familiar with the technology, but 99 petabytes (estimated size of the Internet Archive) seems like a little much for even a large network of home computers.
Don't get me wrong, decentralizing would be great, but I just don't understand how it would be done at this level, especially when, in the grand scheme of things, I don't think there's a whole lot of people who would pitch in.
99 petabytes is not that much really, my NAS has a quarter petabyte of storage, some of which I can spare. This is something that just a few thousand volunteers could manage realistically
Each person doesn't need to host everything.
The Internet archive already has torrents that get automatically created, you can right now go and download/seed torrents for some items and you are immediately doing your part in decentralizing the Internet archive.