Crash 1996 Internet Archive Review

For the uninitiated, the “Crash of 1996” refers to a cascading storage failure across a pre-Web 2.0 data center in late November 1996. A combination of a failing RAID controller, a beta version of Linux kernel 2.0, and a janitor unplugging the wrong rack resulted in the irreversible loss of roughly 12% of the early public web .

No, not the whole Internet. But specifically, the loss of GeoCities’ “Heartland” district, half of the early Usenet archives from 1993-1995, and—tragically—the entire first two years of a certain book review archive based in San Francisco. crash 1996 internet archive

★★★★★ (5/5 stars – for the haunting historical value) Review by: Terminal_Archivist For the uninitiated, the “Crash of 1996” refers