>> tonight on the communicators from the annual state of the net conference, internet archive creator brewster cale talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million pages every day, the total collection is about 800 billion url's, so it's actually kind of huge and in terms of-- that turns out to be only part of what we do. we also archive television, abc, nbc, cbs, fox. and international television. if you go to tv.archives.org, you can search to find clips much what other people said and be able to put those in blog pos posts. the idea is so people can compare and contrast what people stay on television. >> 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in for a brief pro forma

session which they're holding every three days white senators are back working in their home states. they're currently scheduled to return on april 20th. you're watching live coverage on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the parliamentarian will read a communication to the senate. the parliamentarian, washington, d.c., april 6, 2020. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable shelley capito, a senator from the state of west virginia, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on thursday, april 9, 10:00 a.m. on thursday, april 9,

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>> booktv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> tonight on "the communicators" from the annual state of the net conference internet archive creator talks about documenting the internet. >> we collect about 800 million pages every day. the total collection is about 800 billion urls. it's kind of huge and it turns out that is on the part of what we do. >> we also archived television, abc abc, cbs, fox, but also international television and if you go to tv.archive you can search to find clips of what other people said and be able to put those in blog posts. the idea is to make it so people can quote compare and contrast about what's happened on television. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at eight eastern on c-span2.

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