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Internet Archive is great, both for the fun of having frequent copies of my web site going back almost 20 years, and it is important for preserving digital history.

Fortunately storage and bandwidth costs will keep decreasing so more replicas can be built over time. I just made a contribution.

BTW, I was in their building in SF in June for the Decentralized Web conference - a fantastic location, and I recommend that you visit.

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Have they recovered fully from the fire?

I don't know bot any fire there. When did it happen?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/7/5076166/the-internet-archi...

Jason Scott, Internet Archive. We've recovered from the fire in terms of book scanning and operations. We have not rebuilt on the spot where the building that burned down was - several possibilities have been floated but nothing has happened in that direction. And of course there were some nice awards and mementos in that building that are gone. But on the whole, we're good regarding that. People were kind and we worked hard to replace the lost resources.

That's really good to hear.

On a side note, I love textfiles.com. thanks for providing such a cool and important resource.

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