mediajunk

What if you could have the entire contents of the web on disk? Well, Alexa (an Amazon company previously known for its site-rating concept) is offering just that ... albeit a gazillion disks.

I like the idea of internet archives. I had a magazine on the web called "The Buzz" back in 1994/95 and would enjoy looking at those pages again. Unfortunately, the best known archive only goes back as far as 1996.

I think I may still have some Buzz files on floppies. If so, I'll post them to my new site soon. Meanwhile, the only references I can find to The Buzz are a couple of dead links, here and here.

Both of them say that "The Buzz is a free magazine based in the northwest of Ireland, written and presented by a team of horrendous layabouts, and aimed at a similar reader group," which would have insulted me, if I hadn't written that line myself ;)

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Getting back to Alexa: I wonder if they'll run into any copyright issues, now that they've effectively copied the entire web? Incidentally, the same question was recently asked of Google, which maintains a huge cache, or locally stored set of the internet's pages (CNET magazine).