I have a text-only archive of the Internet since 1992. 52TB raw including edits. 22TB without. Crawlers have indexed 82 search engines since AltaVista. (whatever)

submitted ago by virge

I'm going to start seeding this tomorrow. Encryption key below.

AES-256-CFB1 key: 0193A106375355D07724EFD8F650042F95BE491881CD02FA93CCD39A3CCFA857

Edit: Interesting. The system I made this post on is now experiencing an extremely high level of probing for security vulnerabilities.

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KebabAndNoseRemoval ago

Telling the glow in the darks you've got all of their clearweb fuckery over the last 27 years.

Interesting choice for your health friendo.

Morbo ago

This makes Virge look very glow in the dark himself. Why and how would someone have such an archive covering 27 years? This isn't the sort of thing a normal everyday Joe would do for fun. Seems quite suspicious.

Smells_Like_Tacos ago

A lot of techies like thier own hard copy. A copy they can work with without anybody else watching.

Morbo ago

The vast majority of techies don't have any means to download or store a 52 TB file. This is not some like a movie or TV show sized file. This kind of storage would set you back a lot of money and is not something most techies would even attempt to do. Imagine building an addition to your house to store the texts in the Library of Congress. That's the physical equivalent of this sort of thing. It's not something trivial.

Smells_Like_Tacos ago

The vast majority of techies that you know.

Morbo ago

I have been programming professionally for over 3 decades. I have never had the need to buy hard drives as a hobby. If you need to do this for your coding, then you're doing it wrong.

Smells_Like_Tacos ago

Whatever