Internet Archive - Inside Out 2

The screen goes black.

404 - Not Found? No. 200 - Everywhere.

The motto of the sequel becomes clear: “You cannot delete what is infinitely replicated.” A side plot involves the Audio & Moving Image wing . Here, the Archive holds 4.5 million audio recordings, from Grateful Dead bootlegs to 78 RPM shellac records of 1920s blues. But in Inside Out 2 , physical decay has a digital cousin: bit rot . internet archive inside out 2

Then, text appears: “The Internet Archive has been offline for 72 hours. During that time, users around the world downloaded 15 petabytes of data from each other via peer-to-peer caches. The library did not die. It became a protocol.” We see a child in a remote village in 2054. She has no internet. But she has a used laptop and a mesh network node. She types a command: ping archive.org . The screen goes black