The Internet Archive has reached 10 Petabytes of stored data, which is 10,000 terabytes, or 10 million gigabytes. That's a lot.

This data contains everything from the World War II newsreels to public domain music. Not forgetting the amazing wayback machine, which can show you old versions of websites, for example YouTube.

Using the wayback machine, you can see that (almost) everything ever uploaded on the internet has not been forgotten, and can still be recovered way or another. That's why you have to think twice when uploading sensitive data on the net.

A paper always has two sides, the data might be there forever, but hey, it's an awesome way to back it up, right? At least the non-profit Internet Archive thinks this way.

Before I completely lose myself in to the wonders of the wayback machine, let's get back on the subject.

The wayback machine uses the crawl data that they have collected, and that alone takes up 80 terabytes of space.

If this got you interested, you can follow the link to Internet Archive and also give a spin to the wayback machine while you're there.