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AFFIDAVIT OF DUNCAN HALL
1. I am a Records Request Processor at the Internet Archive, located in San Francisco,
California. I make this declaration of my own personal knowledge.
2. The Internet Archive is a website that provides access to a digital library of Internet
sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide
free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The Internet
Archive has partnered with and receives support from various institutions,
including the Library of Congress.
3. The Internet Archive has created a service known as the Wayback Machine. The
Wayback Machine makes it possible to browse more than 450 billion pages stored
in the Internet Archive's web archive. Visitors to the Wayback Machine can search
archives by URL (i.e., a website address). If archived records for a URL are
available, the visitor will be presented with a display of available dates. The visitor
may select one of those dates, and begin browsing an archived version of the Web.
Links on archived files in the Wayback Machine point to other archived files
(whether HTML pages or other file types), if any are found for the URL indicated
by a given link. For instance, the Wayback Machine is designed such that when a
visitor clicks on a hyperlink on an archived page that points to another URL, the
visitor will be served the archived file found for the hyperlink's URL with the
closest available date to the initial file containing the hyperlink.
4. The archived data made viewable and browseable by the Wayback Machine is
obtained by use of web archiving software that automatically stores copies of files
available via the Internet, each file preserved as it existed at a particular point in
time.
5. The Internet Archive assigns a URL on its site to the archived files in the format
http://web.archive.org/web/[Year in yyyy][Month in mm][Day in dd][Time code in
hh:mm:ss]/[Archived URL] aka an "extended URL". Thus, the extended URL
http://web.archive.org/web/19970126045828/http://www.archive.org/ would be the
URL for the record of the Internet Archive home page HTML file
(http://www.archive.org/) archived on January 26, 1997 at 4:58 a.m. and 28
seconds (1997/01/26 at 04:58:28). A web browser may be set such that a printout
from it will display the URL of a web page in the printout's footer. The date
indicated by an extended URL applies to a preserved instance of a file for a given
URL, but not necessarily to any other files linked therein. Thus, in the case of a
page constituted by a primary HTML file and other separate files (e.g., files with
images, audio, multimedia, design elements, or other embedded content) linked
within that primary HTML file, the primary HTML file and the other files will each
have their own respective extended URLs and may not have been archived on the
same dates.
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