Internet Archive building damaged by fire

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24848907

by sblawrie • 13 years ago

58 9 13 years ago

Akujin• 13 years ago

They are asking for donations to recover: https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple...

Osmium• 13 years ago

Are they covered by insurance at all?

dmead• 13 years ago

BREAKING: the internet is on fire

stuhood• 13 years ago

You can donate BTC: https://archive.org/donate/bitcoin.php

bencoder• 13 years ago

https://blockchain.info/address/17gN64BPHtxi4mEM3qWrxdwhieUv...

Apparently they currently have 52BTC in that address, about 15000USD. Not bad. Hope the private key wasn't in this building :)

sirsar• 13 years ago

TLDR: Don't worry, no data was lost.

extempo• 13 years ago

"However, the fire did cause the loss of some materials that were being prepared for digitisation - the full extent of which is still being assessed."

Segmentation• 13 years ago

This was posted yesterday and was on the front page for most of the day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684800

(hell, it's still on the 3rd page)

talles• 13 years ago

"No data was lost, a spokesman said"

:D