[WEB4LIB] Re: trivial question about size of largest web page

[rich at richardwiggins.com]

Good candidate, but Brewster Kahle told me that only a few hundred scholars have access to the main IA collection.  I assume the inquiry refers to sites that are open to the public.  

Another clarification for the reference interview... :-)

/rich



On Wed, 11 July 2001, Dru Mogge wrote:

> 
> 
> How about The Internet Archive <http://www.archive.org/>?  
> 
> The Archive’s Collections as of March 2001:
> 
>             Web: 1996 to now:                   4 billion pages    40 TB
>             Web: Election 2000                200 million pages     2 TB
>          Usenet: 1996-1998, 2000 to now        16 million postings .5 TB
> Archival movies: ca. 1903 to ca. 1973         360 movies           .5 TB
>         Arpanet: Historical documentation   5,000 pages          < .1 TB
> 
>                                                                   43+ terabytes
> Dru Mogge, ARL
> dru at arl.org

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