1:58 AM
A quote from an interview with the guy who runs the Internet Wayback Machine:


"If all books are 20 TBs, and 20 TBs (cost) $80,000, that's the Library of Congress. ... All music? It's tiny. It looks like there're only one million records that have been produced over the last century. That's tiny. All movies? All theatrical releases have been estimated at 100,000, and most of those from India. If you take all the rest of ephemeral films, that's on the order of a couple hundred thousand. It's just not that big. "


"It's just not that big."

I remember smiling when the characters in Bruce Sterling's novel Heavy Weather were carrying around portable versions of the Library of Congress for entertainment. It's nice to see we've got "Oh, we can archive that" down and can move on to "Sure, you can carry that around."