The shift to an "Inside Out" model changes our relationship with digital history in three profound ways:
We are accustomed to thinking of the internet as "up there." It is a nebulous realm, a theoretical "cloud" where data floats in a state of eternal preservation. We upload our photos to the ether, trusting that The Cloud will keep them safe.
In the DWeb model, the Archive doesn't just store a file on one server. It breaks the file into pieces, gives those pieces a unique "fingerprint" (a cryptographic hash), and shares them across a network of volunteers.
The shift to an "Inside Out" model changes our relationship with digital history in three profound ways:
We are accustomed to thinking of the internet as "up there." It is a nebulous realm, a theoretical "cloud" where data floats in a state of eternal preservation. We upload our photos to the ether, trusting that The Cloud will keep them safe. inside out internet archive
In the DWeb model, the Archive doesn't just store a file on one server. It breaks the file into pieces, gives those pieces a unique "fingerprint" (a cryptographic hash), and shares them across a network of volunteers. The shift to an "Inside Out" model changes
