Internet Archive building damaged by fire

[sblawrie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24848907

[Akujin]

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

[Osmium → Akujin]

Are they covered by insurance at all?

[stuhood]

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

[bencoder → stuhood]

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]

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

[extempo → sirsar]

"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]

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]

"No data was lost, a spokesman said"

:D

[dmead]

BREAKING: the internet is on fire