The Hustle:
At 300 Funston Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District, there’s an old Christian Science church. Walk up it’s palatial steps, past Corinthian columns and urns, into the bowels of a vaulted sanctuary — and you’ll find a copy of the internet.
In a backroom where pastors once congregated stand rows of computer servers, flickering en masse with blue light, humming the hymnal of technological grace.
This is the home of the Internet Archive, a non-profit that has, for 22 years, been preserving our online history: Billions of web pages, tweets, news articles, videos, and memes.
I can’t count how many times I’ve used the Wayback Machine. It’s an invaluable resource for research and curiosity.
It’s also needed more than ever, as a repository for the science and history that lobbyist-owned conservatives have scrubbed from our government’s public-facing services.