In fact, the first time they plugged on the pipe organ in a few years, we blew up the transformer on the corner, which makes it the first pipe organ related data center outage. But this particular data center contains some amount of what we think of as archive.org and the Wayback Machine. And the Wayback Machine, of course turned out to be the killer app. But it was part of a monopoly of experiments tries attempts by Brewster kale and the rest of the folks who have worked for him to do something to try things. Everything from the Internet Archive is a profound bizarre experiment stumbling blindly into areas both established and completely unknown. For example, one day a series of deadheads said we would love to store our recordings of old shows somewhere and Brewster said, Well, I have disk space and that is why we have the Live Music Archive, a film preservationist named Rick Prelinger decided to digitize some of his government films he'd acquired, but at that size MPEG two who was going to possibly store it, the Internet Archive came in the Prelinger archives are both offline and are online, but they're existing on the Internet Archive. Everything after that has been that way. Again, I was hired in 2011. So I am a late stage addition to the archive. Some people think I founded it, that's just because I'm loud, brash and have a top hat. The curly haired guy next to me founded it. So when they hired me, they said, What do you want to do? Because I demanded a job there. That's how I got a job there which I do not recommend as a you know, career approach. It's not going to work for everyone, but sure, go into a building and demand they hire you until they hire you. And they said, what what do you want? I said, I want to be a free range archivist. I want to go where I'm needed, learn what I need to do, and go there and so I did. So for the past 13 years or 12 years, I've been at the archive, doing what I think needs to be done that includes archiving software, working on emulation of that software in the browser, collecting ephemera. I'm a very big fan of ephemera, hip hop mixtapes, collections of, you know, hacker con, conference, recording, and so on. And there's there's just literally petabytes of data that I've brought down into that place as a free range. archivist. When a free range archivist thinks about something, he gets to do it, and if he ignores it, somebody else will probably do it as well. So everything kind of works out. The inbox of the Internet Archive is important for me and what I've been focusing a lot of effort on. We pull in roughly about 74 to 78 terabytes of data a day. That includes everything from websites to uploads to partner organizations, sand books, scan, 78 RPM records, scan 33, and a third records CDs and of course, whatever people think we need to have, which is variant at best on the on the I'll go into this in a moment, but as part of the conspiracy theories that have now winded its way around every single thing existing everywhere, all the time, there's a belief that somehow the Internet Archive is actually capable of executing some sort of editorial control on our inflow such that only our personal blank here, politics approach is allowed through our Pearly Gates, watching 78 billion URLs, enter in every few weeks watching 11,000 radio recordings go in a day, grabbing every podcast that gets put up onto Apple podcasts and other sources every day. I can tell you that a staff of less than 100 is not going to do that. It's just absorbing everything digital that it possibly can in the hope that some portion of it will represent something of meaning to later generations of humanity. It is literally when I describe it as going down then it and done in the hope that 1000 years someone will go Denton and we don't know if that's going to be there. It's purely a faith based initiative in that way. The Wayback Machine continues to be the stunning killer app to the point that a lot of people don't know we do anything else. Millions of people visit the Internet Archive through the Wayback Machine for research for verification for misery for polarity, to find old versions of malware to embarrass someone to show a liar that they are a liar to verify that a truth teller may have changed their truth over time, whatever they want from it, again, a multifaceted jewel of a place it has so many pages going in so many directions. It dates back to about 96 or 97 to give you an idea of how arbitrary this all is. It was started simply because Alexa Internet was I say this to Americans, Nielsen ratings for websites a way of keeping track of what are the hot websites, what is this website done, and without a memory, you couldn't detect trends? So we're starting to grab the text contents later the image contents of websites, so it wasn't done out of a planned sense of this needs to be done. Let's work it out. Let's have a committee to have a meeting to have a memo to have another meeting to have a committee to do this. This was well we've just got all this data. Let's just keep it in the back and it was only through Brewster saying what if we replayed it back to people? That'd be pretty funny. In 2001, that we even have a Wayback Machine. It's not a government institution. It's not owned by anybody except for a nonprofit. It is maintained simply because it was neat. And now it's become critical infrastructure to the memory of a humanity that is quickly eating itself. So that's how arbitrary it is. If you're looking for lessons if you're trying to dig for some gold out of me, I will tell you that you should definitely never buy into the situation that the project you're working on needs some sort of individual with a starting gun standing next to the starting line to tell you that it's about to go off and you've got to run. You should have been running already. You should always be running the overlapping Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine and Wikipedia has probably been most successful with the turning all links blue project which some people may know or others may not. I'm just going to say it explicitly. I also want to stress with all my heart I have not a weight of a jar of an atom of personal stake in it. I haven't done anything. This has been done by the team of the way back and many volunteers and many coordinators at Wikipedia. Wikipedia depends utterly on references, except it's referring to a dying ink blotter of an Internet that is showing that nothing is sacred. When it comes to plowing things down. So a project was put together and in coordination with a bot. If you link a reference to a website at Wikipedia, the Wayback Machine is immediately told and it immediately takes a full grab of that citation. At that exact moment and maintains it. Then a bot constantly watches so when that reference inevitably dies, it reverses it immediately into the wayback copy. In doing that, the nightmare of a consistent present where people who can claim that that never happened that's not a real link that was made can link to it. It's subject to all the usual declarations of conspiracy concerned and whatever. I will tell you that the Internet Archive is not going to change the history. We don't change the history. I don't believe me, you know the guy in a top hat told you I don't know what that's gonna do for you. But point of fact is, is that we don't change it. But the but the main effect of this excellent, excellent project is that 1000s Literally 1000s of web pages are being preserved using the wayback as an indicator of society and education and individuals need for certain pages to represent Oh answer another conspiracy theory. So you'll have something something terrible, let's just put it that way. And they have a webpage and they are arrested and their web pages up. At that point and individual goes to the Internet Archive and clicks on what's known as save page now button, which is a function we have which is currently running which many people use to say please preserve this immediately in the Wayback Machine. Think of it as like a pulled emergency cable please archive now. If you're in a good mood, you can say oh that is fantastic.