I Had a Website: The Practices of Archive Team and the Internet Archive in Archiving GeoCities
During the specialized collection of GeoCities websites, the Internet Archive's servers were located and maintained on Sun Microsystems's Santa Clara Data Center; all materials were “stored on hundreds of slightly modified x86 servers” in a shipping container (“Frequently Asked Questions”). Today, the Internet Archive owns and maintains its own data centers in the San Francisco Bay area. The Archive Team “stored” the files as a torrent, originally seeded by Archive Team founder Jason Scott. Rather than downloading from a centralized server, peers shared and stored files among each other.
