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    Vanessa C.

    This is such a beautiful venue and space for learning. I was lucky enough to attend the intersection of art and technology demos. The golden hour was such a vibe through the space because of the windows and architecture. They have tours for free on Fridays at 1 and i'll have to follow up on that. Overall, wonderful place to experience

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    John Z.

    Friday's guided tour is a must. 1:15pm of each week. Only once a week. The young man will tell you lot of things about Internet Archive. He is very nice too

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    Angela F. W.

    If this is not the coolest place, I don't know what is! I am a huge believer in universal access to open knowledge and have been a fan of the Wayback Machine as long as I can remember. When one of my colleagues told me that the Internet Archive offered public tours, I couldn't even believe it. I almost jumped for joy when people at my work decided to visit as a group for a small field trip. So I came with two colleagues of mine and two of our interns for the first time in 2017. The founder and digital librarian (I like the nice ring to it) Brewster Kahle himself led a very informative tour. We got to learn about the history of this remarkable non-profit and many cool projects that'd made a big difference on the world we live in. We also got to eat a delicious meal with all the Internet Archive employees (oh those baked BBQ portobello mushrooms!!!) and sit in their weekly staff meeting. I was taking pictures non-stop and totally fangirling like crazy! Last week, I came to the Internet Archive again for their world night market annual bash which was a very well organized fabulous fun-filled fundraising event. There were food trucks, live music, demo booths, official programs, dessert, and a dance party afterwards. I got to learn some of the most amazing partnerships the Internet Archive has been building with Wikipedia, Better World Books, the Philips Academy Andover among others. The Internet Archive is currently working on recording radio station programs worldwide and making them archived and searchable for research. If you told me someone wanted to preserve the entire human knowledge and archive the World Wide Wed as a whole, I'd have told you this person was crazy. BUT the truth is that it is possible because this is exactly what Brewster Kahle and his Internet Archive team are doing. On a side-note, apparently you get a little replica statue of yourself in the main hall if you work for this place for 3 and more years. Now I am seriously thinking about changing jobs!! Internet Archive, dream BIG and prosper!!!

    This stack holds one tenth of the internet archive. Amazing how so much data can be kept in such a small space!

    I remember using the Wayback machine quite some time ago, and a recent New Yorker article (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb) revived my interest in the Internet Archive when I read that they have a physical location, and you can tour it for FREE! They don't advertise it anywhere on their website, but they indeed have tours every Friday at 1 pm. The only other place I could find this verified was Yelp, so I called them, and they verified as well. My penultimate visit to San Francisco, I had intended to go, but I wasn't going to be there on a Friday. Serendipitously, we drove past it while in SF, and when I saw it, I immediately knew--that must be it! My next visit to SF, I was sure to visit. Until you go through the front door, you're not sure if you're in the right place--the building is an old church with a small "Internet Archive" on the corner. When you get inside, though, it is immistakable that you are in the right place. You can watch them digitize old video films, have a peek at their book scanner, play on their videogame emulator, or listen to music at their music library nook. At 1:00, Brewster, the tour guide, greets each guest with a handshake and tells you enthusiastically about the history, culture, and future of the internet archive. What I think many of the people on the tour didn't realize is that Brewster founded Alexa, which was bought by Amazon for $250 million, as well as the Internet Archive, so for all intents and purposes, he is a tech rockstar; yet he proceeds with the tour very humbly. The current Internet Archive building used to be a Christian Science church, and they haven't changed much in the layout. He shows us a group of a half dozen people who are digitizing CDs one-by-one behind the church pews, and flanking them are two server stacks which, combined, hold a fifth of the master copy of the Internet Archive. It's amazing how a copy of the WHOLE INTERNET (actually multiple copies if you count that the archive saves multiple versions of websites over time) and all sorts of other stuff (the archive is now continually archiving the 24/7 feeds of several TV channels, endlessly digitizing books, and saving other content) can fit in such a compact space. We also got to have a peek in the offices that are set up just as you would expect for a tech organization with open workspaces, bottles of Sriracha sauce on desks, and couches abound. If you have even the slightest interest in all things geeky, then do yourself a favor, and head over to the Internet Archive one Friday afternoon.

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    This is a unique site that impacts everyone in research. Keeping the World Wide Web honest is a project of massive proportions.

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    Love the wayback machine. Great to see old version of things on the Internet. Internet history is important too!

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