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by bt1a 686 days ago
> The Internet Archive serves millions of people each day and is one of the top 300 web sites in the world. A single copy of the Internet Archive library collection occupies 145+ Petabytes of server space (and we store at least 2 copies of everything). We are funded through donations, grants, and by providing web archiving and book digitization services for our partners. As with most libraries we value the privacy of our patrons, so we avoid keeping the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of our readers and offer our site in https (secure) protocol.

QFT

What an unbelievably pissy and deserving tone from the author. If you want to be an archivist and you've permanently lost data that was stored in a single, external location, hopefully it's a learning experience

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According to your quote the data was stored in at least 2 places, but Internet Archive are choosing not to restore it? That's a different type of learning experience.
Random text hunk?

QFT? Quantum Field Theory?

> What an unbelievably pissy and deserving tone from the author.

n.b. they are interlocuting with "Patron Services" :X

Pissy? "My support experience with Internet Archive was frustrating and ultimately futile. They did not adequately address my queries and requests" is a very whitebread version of "pissy"

> If you want to be an archivist and you've permanently lost data that was stored in a single, external location, hopefully it's a learning experience

Yeah, hopefully!

QFT == Quoted for Truth