Internet Archive building damaged by fire

Internet Archive building damaged by fire(bbc.co.uk)

58 points by sblawrie 12 years ago | 9 comments

Akujin 12 years ago |

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

Osmium 12 years ago | |

Are they covered by insurance at all?

stuhood 12 years ago |

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

bencoder 12 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 12 years ago |

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

extempo 12 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 12 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 12 years ago |

"No data was lost, a spokesman said"

dmead 12 years ago |

BREAKING: the internet is on fire