{"id":220424,"date":"2026-03-04T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/inside-the-old-church-where-one-trillion-webpages-are-being-saved\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:25:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:25:31","slug":"inside-the-old-church-where-one-trillion-webpages-are-being-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/inside-the-old-church-where-one-trillion-webpages-are-being-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved<\/a><\/p>\n

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CNN<\/p>\n

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its fa\u00e7ade adorned with eight striking gothic columns.<\/p>\n

But what was once the home of a Christian Scientist church, is now the holy grail of Internet history \u2014 the Internet Archive, a non-profit library run by a group of software engineers and librarians, who for nearly 30 years have been saving the web one page at a time.<\/p>\n

Inside the stained-glass-adorned sanctuary, the sounds of church sermons have been replaced by the hum of servers, where the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine preserves web pages.<\/p>\n

The Wayback Machine, a tool used by millions every day, has proven critical for academics and journalists searching for historical information on what corporations, people and governments have published online in the past, long after their websites have been updated or changed.<\/p>\n

For many, the Wayback Machine is like a living history of the internet, and it just logged its trillionth page last month.<\/p>\n

Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. The White House in January ordered vast amounts of government webpages to be taken down. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence is blurring the line between what\u2019s real and what\u2019s artificially generated \u2014 in some ways replacing the need to visit websites entirely. And more of the internet is now hidden behind paywalls or tucked in conversations with AI chatbots.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Internet Archive\u2019s job to figure out how to preserve it all.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The Internet Archive also preserves music, television, newspapers, videogames and books, which archivists digitize page by page using bespoke machines. – CNN<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are here to try to provide a record of what happened, so that people can learn and build on that to build a better future, or to build new ideas that are worthy of being in the (Internet Archive\u2019s) library,\u201d said Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.<\/p>\n

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