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Inside the Internet Archives: Learn How it Works!

news.oreilly.com — O'Reilly Media is running an interview with Gordon Mohr, Chief Technologist for the Internet Archive (archive.org). If you've ever wondered how pages are selected for archiving, or just how they manage such a huge quantity of data, the answers are here. The interview also touches on the problems of intellectual property in archives.

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  • MolokoPlus, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1A little painful on the eyes to read the whole thing, but incredibly interesting. Especially how they collect it and the possibility that years from now an attack in javascript could be reawaken from years ago to wreak havoc, like some kind of black plauge outbreak long after we stopped taking our plauge shots.
  • Newsdude, on 06/19/2008, -0/+1Does someone have cliff notes on this?
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