70 petabytes of anything didn't exist in stored form in the 1800s so that's a ridiculous standard, but... The value here is genuinely historical. In a hundred

70 petabytes of anything didn't exist in stored form in the 1800s so that's a ridiculous standard, but... The value here is genuinely historical. In a hundred years, how will we track the etymology of common terms that originated in this age? Memes make preserving the internet extremely important. Terms and ideas evolve so quickly that the history of language and thought will become obscure almost instantly. Even now it can be almost impossible to understand some internet terms if you weren't part of the subculture that spawned them at the exact time they were spawned. Do you know what hunter2 means? Do you know it because of bash.org? A person doesn't have to read all this material. The material has to be stored because our future society will have descended from this material, and if they don't have it they won't know how they got there. You know, except for the bit where civilisation collapses over the next hundred years as the planet warms and hot countries invade cooler, developed countries looking for living space.