Internet Archives

Storing the world’s knowledge digitally online makes it vulnerable to being lost in a disaster. As a backup, GitHub has now archived 21 TB of public open source data and buried it in a vault in the Arctic in an effort to preserve it for 1,000 years.

Last year, links to media files on MySpace stopped working. Due to a server migration glitch, photos, videos and audio files uploaded prior to 2015 are no longer available. Now almost 500,000 previously lost music files have been recovered and made freely available via the Internet Archive.

An underground atomic shelter has been transformed into an internet provider's HQ.

The Wikimedia Foundation plans to add editable video content to its existing encyclopedia.